Early Lunch

Pho sounds good. Wish I could find some here.

CoT

Translation. And exegisis.

Overnight

Rock harder.

Fire Bob Costas

I don't have a transcript and for all I know it could've been dumb or wrong or whatever, but apparently Bob Costas said to the football audience that absent a gun a football player probably would not have murdered his girlfriend and then killed himself.

Fire him!

Anyway, whatever one thinks the laws/constitution should be, or what the constitution/laws are, this isn't really debatable. As human beings we're capable of losing our shit, especially if we throw some drugs and alcohol into the mix. If you're a big football playing dude it's probably pretty easy to seriously hurt your less than big girlfriend in a moment of rage, but it's actually pretty hard to kill her. Unless you have a gun.

Late Night

Rock on.

Sunday Night

enjoy

THAT MAN CUT YOUR MEDICARE

I know we mostly can't count on the press to highlight the contradictions, but I wonder if any of the Republican voters who probably were genuinely worried about their Medicare will notice that the Republican demand is that Obama cut Medicare.

Because You're A Stupid Git

The worst man in England.

George Osborne admitted it was taking longer for Britain to recover from the financial crisis than he hoped today amid warnings that the Government would miss its key economic targets..

Regular Reminder

Official DC is obsessed with solving fake future problems that they can't actually solve. This Congress cannot tie the hands of future Congresses. Nothing done today can prevent more tax cuts, more unpaid for wars, and more free money for banksters in the future.

Of course they're not really obsessed with solving fake problems, they're obsessed with using fake problems to steal the Social Security money.

Poor People Must Suffer

For Villagers, tax increases on rich people are worse than Hitler and Very Serious Politicians are the ones who want old people to go bankrupt and die.

Shorter Everybody

We must replace this economy killing deficit reduction plan with an economy killing deficit reduction plan.

Morning Thread

Very Late Night Thread

My Turn

I think it's fair (and what am I if not fair) to take this paragraph with several grains of salt, as it's the reporter's wording of things other people said, but if close to being an accurate reflection...

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.

Elsewhere in the article someone discusses the family's commitment to public service. Argh. This isn't about Romney, just this conceit that being a member of Congress, or a governor, or the fucking president, is about "public service." There are public servants, like the teachers everybody dumps on these days, but people with high paying cushy jobs which virtually guarantee them a lifetime of future even cushier even more high paying jobs are hardly making some sort of sacrifice for good.

Evening Thread

Have some Talking Heads.

Afternoon Thread

Italian market time.

"Trade Barbs"

A Washington Post headline tells me "Obama, Boehner trade barbs on 'fiscal cliff'." This raises a very important question. Why were there no barbs during the election? We had our gaffes. We had our zingers. But no barbs!!!

Capitalists

Or, rather, free markets.  

Overnight

Rock through the night.

Overnight Thread

Enjoy