TBogg

Absolutely nothing against Glenn Greenwald in this but yesterday Glenn made a pitch for reader-supported news, by which he means that part of his deal with the Guardian is that his income as a columnist is derived from his hosts as well as from contributions from his readers, thus allowing Glenn the independence to write [...]

So.  This morning: …. and, well, why not? I’m so old I remember when Pat Paulsen’s Presidential run was treated like the joke that it was… Also:

Someone at the Wall Street Journal Home for the Liver-Spotted, Phlegmy And Smelling of Three Week-Old Baby Powder, must have left the bed-rails down again because Dorothy Rabinowitz, who is so old that she used to baby-sit Phyllis Schlafly’s mom, is standing on the lawn in her nightgown and shaking her bony fist at that [...]

So I spent the morning wallowing in the beating about the face and neck that the critics are giving to the joint Will Smith/M. Night Shyamalan poo-bath, After Earth (“Cypher Raige” ! “Nova Prime”! – somewhere an aspiring 12 year-old scifi writer is wondering who has been sneaking peeks into his trapper keeper). I have [...]

Just got home and let’s face it: we’re not kidding anyone with these random ten lists because it is all about the Shakira butt. But here a random thingy anyway: Someone Great – LCD Soundsystem Dazed and Confused – Led Zeppelin Don’t Crash The Car Tonight – Mary’s Danish Crystal Skull – Mastodon Vague Superstitions [...]

I swear, one of these days I’ll have a picture of them actually doing something….

As you may have heard: El Salvador’s Supreme Court ruled Wednesday against allowing a young woman to have an abortion, which her doctors and lawyers argue is necessary to save her life. “We cannot appeal the case because this was the last step, the Supreme Court,” said Victor Hugo Mata, Beatriz’s lawyer, in a telephone [...]

For no particular reason…

Unwitting hubby beard and former baby harvester Michele Bachmann is calling it quits hanging ‘em up, running away, pulling the plug, hitting the road after derailing her own crazy train, and bugging out way more than usual: Representative Michele Bachmann, the Minnesota Republican who made an ill-fated run for the Republican presidential nomination in 2012, [...]

Was busy all day, just got home. I should note that I have a new iPod (yay) to replace the one that was stolen a few months ago and, while I was getting it last weekend, I also bought a new Mac because the 5 year-old one was slower and more stuttery than Sarah Palin [...]