There’s a lot of elitist chortling over the fact that a beauty pageant contestant fumbled a question about income inequality.
But I’m willing to cut her a bit of slack based on the fact that A) it was a beauty contest, not a presidential primary, and B) as Charlie Pierce points out, we’ve seen some presidential candidates do worse with the question.
Don’t piss off Wonkette. Just don’t, okay?
I had a nice visit with my friends Trish and Christopher (and Kayla, too, the furry four-legged greeter) at their place in Key Largo. We relaxed, watched a movie or two (I’d never seen The Prince of Tides) and grilled up some burgers. All in all a great time to unwind.
I came back early this morning in order to get ready for other stuff that needs to get done while I have the time and in order to go shopping for tonight’s Seder at the Shapiros along with friends and family. There is something about honoring a faith tradition in the home and in a way that includes people from other faiths and practices that makes the celebration more than a commemoration of history and belief.
I’m also getting well into the writing mode. My as-yet unfinished and untitled opus (not Bobby Cramer) is going along well enough that I’m taking little sections to the writer’s group that I recently joined. And I’m also in the drafting stage of my paper for the William Inge Theatre Festival’s scholars conference. It’s amazing that I have any time to go to work.
Anyway, I’ll be checking in a little later and watching with anticipation the run-up to the Supreme Court hearings tomorrow and Wednesday on Prop 8 and DOMA. Here’s hoping.
President Obama got a lot of nerdy grief for seeming to mix up Star Wars and Star Trek when he bemoaned the fact that he couldn’t work a “Jedi mind meld” to solve the budget crisis.
Well, it turns out that there is such a thing as a Jedi mind meld after all. So there.
Here’s what the newest pope emeritus will be wearing this spring:
Gone will be the red “Prada” loafers, replaced by brown shoes made in Leon, Mexico.
A pair was given to the Pope on a recent trip there. After Thursday, the Pope’s “fisherman’s ring” will also be destroyed.
You know how hard it is to coordinate your accessories.
Via TPM:
Tagg Romney, son of former Republican presidential candidate Mitt Romney, said on Monday that he has decided against a run for Secretary of State John Kerry’s Senate seat in Massachusetts.
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“I have been humbled by the outreach I received this weekend encouraging me to become a candidate for the US Senate. I love my home state and admit it would be an honor to represent the citizens of our great Commonwealth. However, I am currently committed to my business and to spending as much time as I can with my wife and children. The timing is not right for me, but I am hopeful that the people of Massachusetts will select someone of great integrity, vision, and compassion as our next US Senator.”
I guess the trees weren’t the right height this time.
The idea of Rand Paul being the president of anything totally creeps me out.
Somewhere a bunch of Mayans are having the last laugh: “Ha! Made you look!”
Syria is firing Scud missiles at rebels.
Eurocrisis: Let’s see some unity here.
Poll: Make a fiscal cliff deal already.
Fugitive John McAfee arrived in Miami.
A rock concert was held to raise money for Sandy victims.
Circumcision will remain legal in Germany.
TV commercials get quieter starting today.
From today’s Washington Post:
By all accounts, the past month has been most difficult on Romney’s wife, Ann, who friends said believed up until the end that ascending to the White House was their destiny. They said she has been crying in private and trying to get back to riding her horses.
To quote the immortal Hawkeye Pierce: “The instrument has yet to be invented that can measure my indifference to that remark.”
President Obama invited Mitt Romney over for lunch yesterday. The menu included white turkey chili.
Feel free to offer any captions you like.
Kudos to the folks at TPM for this one:
Nude & Boehner in Same Sentence
Nude protestors swarm John Boehner’s office to protest cuts to AIDS funding.
Whew.
Grover Norquist on the election results:
The president was elected on the basis that he was not Romney and that Romney was a poopy-head and you should vote against Romney.
The ghost of William F. Buckley just spit up a little in his mouth.
Cutting the entire federal subsidy to PBS, as advocated by Mitt Romney, would amount to six hours of funding for the Department of Defense.
That’s at current funding levels. If Mr. Romney had his way, he’d increase the the defense budget to a level that would make the PBS subsidy short enough to sponsor a Pentagon coffee break.
Nothing’s too good for the troops, right?
HT to Melissa.
Heading off to bed, I caught wind of a breaking story on MSNBC: President Obama is in the house at the Democratic Convention tonight along with Bill Clinton.
It would be the acme of delight if he showed up on stage with Mr. Clinton… and brought his own chair.
Leave it to a Republican to get Labor Day wrong:
Today, we celebrate those who have taken a risk, worked hard, built a business and earned their own success.— Eric Cantor (@GOPLeader) September 3, 2012
Yeah, management, baby!
You know that nothing good can come from a column that starts, “Why did God put Barack Obama on this earth?”
Just walk away.
I went to a car show last night, and look who showed up.
I went to a car show last night, and look who showed up.
