The Worst Person In The World

Casey Mulligan.

The list of people I thought were smart when I was a grad student, but who are actually fucking idiots, grows.

Fucked

Wen Stephenson is trying.  If you have kids, I don't know how you look them in the eyes.  Because this  is only getting worse.

CNN Expert Analyst Offers Expert Analysis

Erick, The Son of Erick, informs us that even if Obama wins, it's no big deal, because the Apocalypse is coming anyway, so who gives a shit, really? He's welcome to his loudly sincere religious beliefs, good for him! and I'm sure glad that even if Romney loses, he'll still have his very nice house. That's just super. The two takeaways from this very stupid person's effusions are that (1) he has no interest in elections as anything other than a game and (b) he thinks Romney is going to lose and is trying to offer Consolations to the idiots what comprise the Team Red State crazies.

Overnight

The most rockingest ever.

Friday Night

Rock harder.

Friday Evening

Rock on.


The 80s were so weird.

Friday Happy Hour

On Wednesday I thought it was Monday, yesterday I thought it was Friday, and today I spent most of the day thinking it was Thursday.

After the election every day will be Saturday.

And His Money

I've been thinking about this lately. Just what are those rich assholes going to think about Karl and the Gang once it finally occurs to them that they were marks.

Disaster

Hard to get a sense of the scale of problems in NYC. I wonder how many tall buildings have had their plumbing, HVAC, and electrical systems destroyed.

Flight Jacket

Oh Jeebus. I think Bush had his sewn onto his skin.

New Black Panther Party

Awesome.

A Clackamas County elections worker is under criminal investigation for tampering with ballots, WW has learned.

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Sources familiar with the incident say their understanding is that the woman filled in a straight Republican ticket on the ballots where preferences had been left blank by voters.

Devastation

Sandy has done incredible damage to long-running science projects.

Parking And Transit

Not a big fan of gambling our way to prosperity, but the powers that be have decreed that we must have a second casino. One down by the sports complex makes sense. There's plenty of parking and it's a one seat subway ride from the convention center area.

Silver Linings

Some signs that Bloomberg (who was ok) and Cuomo (who wasn't) understand a bit more that NYC can't function without its mass transit system.

Such Weird People

I admit it never occurred to me that our political pundits would declare a war on polls and the gay wizards who read them.

Jobs

+171K, unemployment at 7.9%.

A bit better than meh.

On the Table

It's horrible public policy, terrible politics, but SS and Medicare are on the table.

Overnight

Rock on.

Tough

I knew Nicholas DuPree a bit online years ago. Hope Nick and Alejandra manage...

Weird

In '04 many of us online liberals were cautiously optimistic that Kerry would win. And there was good reason for that! He came pretty damn close, and given the circumstances at that time that was actually pretty remarkable. I certainly didn't think Kerry was the perfect candidate (who is) or that they ran a perfect campaign (they didn't) but it was still pretty impressive how close he came to winning.

But right now the conservative line is "ROMNEY'S GOING TO WIN!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!"

He might. But there isn't any reason to be confident of that.