The MA historic district I live in may not have much in the way of enforcement powers, but they are required to sign off on building permits. So I can paint my house pink against their wishes and they may not be able to stop him, but I can’t do anything requiring a permit without their agreement, which will require that I preserve the historic character. Which is apparently pretty much what the National Architectural Trust “does”. Tax fraud. And it won’t matter to his base one fucking bit other than to earn their respect, admiration and envy.

Arabic goes right to left. You figure out the rest.

Ok, so I didn’t follow all the links in the original.

A more practical angle:
http://www.ritholtz.com/blog/2013/01/who-the-hell-is-phil-mickelsons-financial-advisor/

Nice touch making the only group to not have a tax increase be colored folks.

Ah, sorry, for you purists that didn’t go all the way to the end…
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RmISVHxjcAI

To be fair, there is precedence she may have personal experience with:

http://www.spike.com/video-clips/4v7vms/charlie-and-the-chocolate-factory-dont-touch-that-squirrels-nuts

Geez, answering this is like shooting fish in a barrel.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ChwQtlcI6Yg

I’d call that a path leading to irrelevance, but I’m just quibbling. I believe we’re in violent agreement.

“Churches weren’t threatened; they were ignored.” I challenge you to propose a greater threat to churches.

Douthat also was noticed by Krugman yesterday, who was polite about it. Maybe it’s in his NYT deal, or maybe he was having a bad day. “…the winning Obama coalition did not for the most part consist of forward-looking, NPR-listening, culturally adventurous liberals; instead, the big numbers came from groups “unified by economic fear”.” Not quite sure why PK so readily buys into the “big numbers” bit; that seems to feed right into the “47% are gimmes” ploy. Election tippers, maybe, but that’s not necessarily big.

Oh, my. I’m just a voyeur on all this, and the jesus freak football shit is just buttfuck tedious. But Billmon, he kept me sane when I was living in Germany in 2003 wondering what the fuck was happening to my county while I was gone. That was nice, thank you.

It’s interesting to read reports that Karl Rove’s backers are furious– not unhappy, discouraged, or disappointed, but furious. Sort of like they really, truly thought they could manipulate 60M semi-rational people casting secret ballots for their societal preferences based on information obtained from an uncensored media. Either that, or they thought they were buying election fraud. Or they’re emotionally petulant children. Or, like most things in life, a little of all of the above.

Re: presidential traffic, a bit of trivia. I’m pretty sure the hang- and paragliders at TP will be grounded when he’s in town, in case they crash into his house and light their farts or something.

I got to the first shot of the chipmunk guy, realized what the Rolo remark was about, and started laughing so hard there was no point going further. I think that was about 30. So I lose, but I win.

Growing up in Pittsburgh, there was a bald, scarfaced newscaster with what was described as “the voice of god” named Paul Long. He wasn’t fun to look at, but you took him seriously. Boy, those days are gone.

We’ll always have Ken Starr. And Monica’s peddling a new book.

Obama Derangement Syndrome has the reactionaries so unhinged that I think they might be doing more damage to themselves now than if they actually gained power. They’re really pretty skilled when they’re deliberate and focused, but that black boy in the president’s bed just has them crazy.

Is this blog comment count ratings week, or was it an excuse to draw a rainbow pony?

“under current guidelines” is the key phrase here. Care to speculate whether Limbaugh makes the connection if Obama does it?

“Is that some see-krit Kenyan anti-colonial hand gesture?”
I think it’s safe to say it qualifies under current guidelines, yes:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Shaka

It’s a prairie dog. Not a hamster, not a chipmunk. No wonder we’re doomed to ecological disaster.

Sorry, I’ll wait for one where the publisher thinks enough of it to produce an embossed cover.