Opera Glasses and Popcorn
Former US secretary of state Henry Kissinger arrives with his wife, Nancy, for the state dinner [Jonathan Ernst/Reuters]
Or… they would be if they would dry up and blow away. Become ghosts, stop showing up.
But no, on and on they go.
An Opera Glasses and Popcorn view of Politics and the Assembled Multitude...
Marisacat -
- Real independent observations on current events with a particular fondness for the follies of the Big Box Blahgers.
Deflates bloated egos like a champion fencer in a balloon warehouse.
- Alan Smithee
Marisacat -
"...polish on a mud wallow"
- Meteor Blades [May 24 at Mcat]
Marisacat -
"... doyenne of donkle deconstruction"
- Who is IOZ [January 2 2007]
Marisacat -
"... hardened professionals and their primary strength lies in their being completely unconflicted."
"... the primary difference is that on the level of criticizing other blogs and bloggers, they can actually do some damage."
"... Not what I look for in a liberal blog product."
- peeder - MLW, Daily Rant [3.24.07]
Democracy NOW! / Amy Goodman Electronic Intifada / General Content Press TV / Middle East News Press TV McClatchy Headlines The Real News Reuters / Politics
|
on one stage reading their poetry"
"I think Allen Ginsberg standing up there reading - putting himself on the line - was one of the two bravest things I've ever seen. Remember, it was '55. People had crew cuts, and they looked at you like you were misplaced cannon fodder. The country was being run by Luce publications. It was a dangerous, cold, ugly time, and it was scary. . .
In all our memories no one had been so outspoken in poetry before. We had gone beyond a point of no return. None of us wanted to go back to the grey, chill, militaristic silence, to the intellectual void - to the land without poetry - to the spiritual drabness. We wanted to make it new and we wanted to invent it and the process of it as we went into it. We wanted voice and we wanted vision."
-Michael McClure
Over and over, in election year after election year, GE and MidTerms both… the Dems start to purr and preen, they stretch luxuriously - at just being TOLD they are going to win [...]
It never fails.
... in February of 2002, looking over the already joyless congressional stragglers willing to be drafted for duty… they barely dreamed, yet, it was even possible (Howard, a different person then, had not arrived to say it could be done)… but one thing was clear, we could not rely on the party to swing it. Could not. You could smell it, they would screw the deal. And I am not talking about Howard and primary issues here. By the end, that was a passing political story. Chuck it on the heap.
[...]
Upshot? The Republicans make it thru. They hold on.
If you click on La Louche the picture or the words, it leads to the Amazon PayPage, a way to ... oh let's say help with the cat can deliveries.
Thanks to all who made the very kind suggestion.
{Okay, I’ll stop!}
‘Night all.
g’night homezy, be safe sweety.
Please. I sleep nude and have had SWAT Teams flee the house.
And on that happy note I’m gonna make a Dagwood.
:0) whatever, ‘tough guy,’ just watch out for those fucking little red dots, or their equivalents ….
I’m, chomping down on some green onion bread, can you please lend me some cheese, cold cuts, tomatoes and lettuce to perfect it?
Thanks!
;0)
How worrisome!
You for my safety!
Me for your steady diet!
I can arrange for someone to drop it off.
Where did you say you’re located?
Do tell, I feel the yawns setting in.
C’mon Di, I gotta hit the hay.
Should I have someone drop ya off something or not?
Jeesh, I’m sorry hon, I fell asleep ….;0(
… I’ll bet Charlotte Maillard, …. Shultz …. seethes with envy, that she didn’t catch that hideous, deformed ‘prize’ …and had to settle for Tiger [wannabe] Ass
(think I have a hanky around here somewhere for Charlotte, lemme go look … Then again, Charlotte still holds a prize for near collapsing the Golden Gate Bridge with her ego.)
eek, what a ghastly pair.
Aren’t they?
A vision somewhere between Marquis de Sade, Munsters, and Cruella de Ville.
Nightmares.
I think her lady’s maid took the crown off her… somehow… convincing Nancy she did not need it. Somehow or other.
except de Sade & the Munsters still give off a feeling of LIFE, those two look like vultures waiting on a branch above a slowly dying disemboweled child.
You’re right, they could audition for the Walking Dead series…
Cruella Deville flit across my mind too, but my first thought, was a remembrance of a ghastly pic, of Schultz’ wife in emerald green taffeta and jewels, with ringed claw (awaiting a ‘kiss’?) at the forefront, …. taken by a photographer who was clearly kneeling, or lying on the floor in order to get the shot …
Awww. Whupdate:
St Gabby still ipad-ing. I think that Twitter account needs some love from St G, don’t you?
Regular whupdates from the speedy recovery road.
You know… like this:
unfuckingbelievable.
Update is St Gabby outdoors for the First Time.
Photo shows Outerspace Boy beside a pile of…. white hospital linen.
I am not kidding.
Daily Mail ran the pic.
there’s a person in there?
I thought it was pretty damned funny. Supposedly there was an ambulance, street level, to a helicopter to the Gulfstream.
BUT, for whatever reason he took her to a roof top of the hospital for an outing before all of that. I say it was a large bird cage filled iwth parakeets under a blanket.
Just remember, today is the day Obster crowed:
GE has a lot to teach us!
we are so fucking scrood.
would be nice if an old fashioned bout of strep throat made the rounds of the Executive office and Congress ….so we could at least have a week, or two’s, vacation from their awful proclamations.
Grrrrrreat idea.
And what he excreted today proves it.
Read more: People mag
The new, Stuff Industry, …so much trouble we’re in ….
Stuff stuff stuff…
From the clip I heard they both sounded high. Laughed like they were high.
Off each other.
Funny you should note that, I was thinking the same thing looking at the pic of Obama (and I might add, a concurrent bad choice of ties, ….Michele was high too?) …I think the last thing on his mind, is bringing meaningful jobs, for meaningful ‘products’ (or services) to the United States (how pathetically quaint, those two connected words seem).
GE already taught me.
Olbermann just announced tonight was the last episode of Countdown. While he is a sanctimonious gasbag and tireless Obrama cheerleader, I might actually miss him. Wonder what the story is…
Incurable illness!
maybe!
we’ll know soon!
the approval of Comcast’s purchase of NBC etc, methinks.
that sounds right, the only Monopoly rules remaining, in actuality, are apparently for the board game.
I’ll miss that the “left”, such as it is, had it’s own loudmouth to at least shout out some kind of counterpoint to the overwhelming tide of wingers in the various media.
People Mag weighs in… supposedly he only learned today…
http://www.politico.com/news/stories/0111/47982.html
It’s hard for me to care, since they’ve basically made it clear that they just want to be courtiers to the side they love. Listening to Maddow and Stewart and the late, unlamented Air Americal legion of blowhards made that abundantly clear to me sometime ago.
They never have anything helpful to propose, when push comes to shove. In the end it all boils down to more and better Democrats because GOP is bad and stupid and don’t you want to be good and smart like me?
Gotta’ keep the corporate sponsors and such happy, after all.
Fuck ‘em. They champion people who are destroying my fucking life and any chance I have at a real livelihood. They champion people who starve alternative forces and repeatedly mock my right to vote for the parties and candidates I want.
I don’t give two shits about their imperiled livelihoods and reps.
they are part of the system…
well sure, so? Better to just be surrounded by all winger, all the time? Nice to just have some variation in the constant din …
that’s just me, I guess.
I scratch the local specimen of liberal and find plenty of hate with minimal effort. Even leaving aside the ones who outright wallow in “edgy” speech a la’ Stern, Imus and the like (and there are plenty who do). There are the ones who rigidly divide the entire political spectrum into nothing but “Good Guys” vs. “Tea Party” and so on. If you won’t be on of Them, you must be Tea Party, of course. You get no other choices.
It’s plenty vile in its own right. I suppose it comes from their perception that they own at least this one gerrymandered little corner of America. Maybe in a locale where they were outnumbered by wingers, they’d gain a little humility and a little willingness to deal responsibly with those on their own left. Or at the very least, they’d acknowledge our portion of the spectrum, instead of gleefully working all the time to keep it invisible and unacknowledged.
Stewart and the like are simply that phenomena writ large. They let bullies and wannabe bullies feel like embattled heroes even in environs where they are anything but that.
No pity for them from me. They helped perpetuate this fake, corporate-marketed, duopolistic Hell and rode it for all the bucks and prestige they could grab. They can roast in it along with the rest of us.
well again, sure.
I’m just looking for variety … I harbor no illusions that one “side” is better than another, though I find the harping from one less annoying than that from the other.
I get it, everything sucks. Congrats on that insight … I’m merely noting what’s going on, since I seem unable to completely look away. Sorry it bothered you, I wasn’t advocating that anybody was “better” in the sense that they’d fix anything.
I’m just fed up with local liberals/progs who worship these court jesters-gatekeepers like they’re the best we could ever hope to have. That’s all.
I had to laugh, I saw that KO effusively thanked Tim Russert for having been his …think it ws champion and “protector”.
Oh those men of steel and steely resolve!! Where would we all be without them?
No doubt, forsaken and forlorn!!
I think Rachel does it better, for whatever that is… but it does remind me of the Donohue sacking just prior to the Iraq war. I wasn’t a fan of Donohue, by any stretch of the imagination, but I do wonder if this is the beginning of the cables purging anything with a remote liberal aftertaste again…
After all, we gotta gear up for the Palin presidency!
The great fear ws that Donohue would have on anti war people. That is why they purged him, even with the highest viewership of the line up.
I remember shows he did in the wake of Gulf War 1… they were not going to hve that happen again.
I also remember that as GW1 started, China Beach, a tv program set during the Vietnam war was suddenly cancelled, It had been starting a story arc of anti-war with in the program.
Ooops.
me too.
for all of Olbermann’s flaws, he sometimes gave time to interesting people who don’t get time elsewhere. Not that it matters, but it’s just a welcome break in the usual din.
Palin is there to keep a few uncultured True Believers from straying outside the Party fold come Election Time. Once she accomplishes that, she’ll get some shill post and/or a pat on the back and little else of consequence. Well, maybe a book deal and a special on Lifetime or something.
Sort of like Kucinich, but with glasses. :p
Parents Sue Lawyer for Photoshopping Innocent Photos of Their Kids into Child Porn
oh what a messy case.
A few details.
Keith Olbermann, the controversial MSNBC cable news host, has his contract abruptly terminated by parent company NBC
Oh, THOSE two idiots are so much better.
maybe Immelt and Obbie can take the hour.
and you know, teach us.
The ratings would be a handful of people.
They could make it a GabbiHeadlineNews, with continual updates from AstroHusband and the DNC every half hour.
Donations are “pouring” in for the AZ heroes.
145K said the headline.
Business Insider on some details they’re hearing:
I just realized who else that pic above reminds me of.
MLK on Moderates
Put down the resume, stoner
I’d call it a limited “grip and grin”:
Read more: People Mag
THE SHOWS:
–NBC’s “Meet the Press“: House Majority Leader Eric Cantor; roundtable with Rep. Jim Clyburn (D-SC), former Ambassador and Bush Counselor Karen Hughes, former Clinton White House Chief of Staff John Podesta, Atlantic Media’s Ron Brownstein and CNBC’s Erin Burnett
–ABC’s “This Week“: Sen. Joe Lieberman, Sen. Kay Bailey Hutchison and Sen. Kent Conrad; behind-the-scenes segment with freshmen members Rep. Chris Gibson (R-NY), Rep. Bobby Schilling (R-IL) and Sen. Mike Lee (R-UT); roundtable with ABC’s George Will, New York Times columnist Paul Krugman, former Bush political strategist Matthew Dowd and Democratic strategist Donna Brazile
–CBS’s “Face the Nation“: Sen. John McCain; Sen. Chuck Schumer
–”Fox News Sunday“: Senate Minority Leader Mitch McConnell; Senate Majority Whip Dick Durbin; roundtable with Fox News’ Brit Hume, NPR’s Mara Liasson, the Weekly Standard’s Bill Kristol and Fox News’ Juan Williams; “Power Player of the Week” segment with actor Richard Dreyfuss (provides voice for 50th anniversary of JFK Inauguration)
–CNN’s “State of the Union“: House Minority Leader Nancy Pelosi; former RNC Chairman Michael Steele; real estate mogul Donald Trump; Pima County (Ariz.) Sheriff Clarence Dupnik
–C-SPAN: “The Communicators” (Sat., 6:30pm ET): FCC Commissioner Meredith Attwell Baker, questioned by POLITICO’s Eliza Krigman; “Newsmakers” (Sun. 10am ET / 6pm ET): Rep. David Dreier (R-CA), questioned by Dow Jones Newswires’ Corey Boles and POLITICO’s Jonathan Allen … “Q&A” (Sun. 8pm ET / 11pm ET): Author and journalist Christopher Hitchens
–Univision’s “Al Punto“: Rep. Mario Diaz-Balart (R-FL); Democratic strategist Maria Cardona; Israeli Ambassador to the U.S. Michael Oren; journalist, columnist and author Andres Oppenheimer; Mexican film director Alejandro Gonzalez Iñarritu; roundtable with EFE’s Maria Peña and Newstaco.com’s Victor Landa.
hey hey… NO need to fret about assassination. I mean, why bother? It’s the gloss on the War Biz.
And the 9 year old will live on, in immortality, at least thru the 2012 Democratic party elections process.
Don’t worry, Be Happy…
Read more: People Mag
FWIW (not much) TMZ says KO had seen the handwriting on the wall and had cut a deal.
Carry on!
Nu Nu Nu….
LINK
………………….