Tweets from myself, and various other tweeters I follow who are covering the U.K. election, will appear automatically below. Alas, because neither Cover It Live nor ScribbleLive are importing tweets properly right now, I’ll have to use the non-interactive, non-archive-able Twitter Widget verison. *sigh*
Party like it’s 2008! The Dow Jones Industrials briefly dropped 998.50 points this afternoon, then recovered within minutes to a loss in the 400 to 500 range, and is now… well… see for yourself where it is now, since anything I type will be obsolete by the time I hit “Publish.” Needless to say, during the crazy moments between, like,… Read more »
Two in the middle and I can’t catch Cameron. Two in the middle and I can’t get around. Two in the middle and I can’t catch Cameron. Goodbye, Gordon Brown. [/obscure Chad Mitchell Trio reference that only my parents will get] Uh, so there’s an election today across the pond, over in the U.K., or as Wonkette and other snarky… Read more »
In the wake of the latest asinine debate over whether U.S. citizens arrested on U.S. soil on suspicion of terrorism (conservative police-statists, please stop and re-read that phrase — “on suspicion of” — as in, not convicted, as in not guilty, as in presumed innocent — as many times as necessary until your alleged small-government principles are activated) should be… Read more »
Continuing with my long-delayed Brendan’s Defining Days of the Decade series, we’re into the home stretch now, the Top 3. Unfortunately, in contrast to many joyous days on the list, this one is memorable for all the wrong reasons. But its status as a defining day — of my decade, and probably of yours too — is undeniable. First, to… Read more »
I’ve been mostly neglecting the big weather news in Becky’s and my last pre-Colorado home state, and Loyette’s state of birth, Tennessee. But it’s bad, with just awful flooding (albeit mostly in Middle Tennessee, not East Tennessee where we lived). Here’s the front page of today’s Nashville Tennesseean: More photos here.
I just submitted a picture, taken at 9:00 AM Mountain Time this morning, to the New York Times for its “Moment In Time” global photo mosaic (organized by its “The Lens” blog). One of the topics is “Family,” and this certainly falls into that category: The pictured scene came together on its own; Loyette spontaneously decided to start organizing her… Read more »
There’s a lot of talk about the allegedly slow reaction to the Gulf of Mexico oil spill being “Obama’s Katrina.” I haven’t followed it closely enough to have an opinion on that. But could the moniker prove more literal than anyone now imagines? Blogger Alan Sullivan, who predicted “significant harm to the Gulf” from the BP explosion at a time… Read more »
Lots of good stuff at the White House Correspondents’ Dinner, a.k.a. #nerdprom, last night. I love the jabs at Leno. And Orly Taitz is totally working on a new federal court filing as we speak. OMG HE ADMITTED HE WAS BORN IN KENYA!!! HE ADMITTED HE HASN’T SHOWN US HIS REAL BIRTH CERTIFICATE!!! [Bumped. -ed.] UPDATE: After the jump, the… Read more »
That, at least, is my initial take on this Daily News account of tonight’s events in Times Square: Heroic cops stopped a car bomb from blowing up in the heart of Times Square Saturday night, officials told the Daily News. Two female cops patrolling the area noticed a man fumbling with something in the back of a Nissan SUV parked… Read more »