By Lena Grove aka nasuS on Dec 1, 2008 in Current Affairs | 46 Comments
UPDATE: This is a foreword. Below the fold, you will see that I allowed myself to lapse into a stream of consciousness for a short while. That is a style of writing that was employed by William Faulkner and many great writers. I am most certainly not in their league, but sometimes I enjoy it. [...]
By Lena Grove aka nasuS on Nov 28, 2008 in Open Thread | 38 Comments
Why am I sometimes Lena Grove? Because I read William Faulkner’s Light in August at age 20 and knew that I was she and that her story would always and forever be my life story. I knew. Her innocence, her aloneness, her endurance in living through crisis after crisis, her primal connection to nature. And [...]
By Lena Grove aka nasuS on Nov 24, 2008 in Current Affairs | 263 Comments
Larry has a great POV on this. Whatever people do in their bedrooms is their business, and if they want to get married, let ‘em. Nobody should worry about that stuff. But these protests against SELECT people are SO wrong. Black churches and mosques get a pass? Blacks and Muslims all get a pass? Obama [...]
By Lena Grove aka nasuS on Nov 22, 2008 in Open Thread, Secretary of State Hillary Clinton | 89 Comments
Okay, before we chat about Bob Woodward, we need to discuss the one of the MOST IMPORTANT QUESTIONS FACING US IN THE COMING FOUR YEARS: Where will we go to read truthful and objective reports about the activities and achievements, as well as the problems and challenges, of Secretary of State Hillary Rodham Clinton? Do [...]
By Lena Grove aka nasuS on Nov 21, 2008 in Current Affairs | 127 Comments
[OPEN THREADS provide a place where you can talk about any off-topic subjects of interest to you, as opposed to doing so in the "topical" posts by our writers. Thank you!] This is how upside down my world is! I think Karl Rove’s remarks are so smart and so insightful. Yet I still wish, especially [...]
By Lena Grove aka nasuS on Nov 21, 2008 in Current Affairs, Media Handling of Story, Secretary of State Hillary Clinton | 227 Comments
UPDATE: This is not an NBC conspiracy against Hillary. Here are more news and blog sites reporting much the same story: Fox News is also reporting this now. Here’s one of many videos, this an early Today show video of Andrea Mitchell’s reports all day at MSNBC on the coming announcement: David Ignatius’s column in [...]
By Lena Grove aka nasuS on Nov 21, 2008 in Current Affairs | 7 Comments
I never got to see the original run of West Wing because I was working too many hours to watch it even if I’d taped it. Single mom-hood is quite something. Got really burned out too, not a good thing. Here is one of the great blessings of having a bad back — I HAVE [...]
By Lena Grove aka nasuS on Nov 20, 2008 in Current Affairs, Hillary Clinton, No Quarter Blog, Obama Administration, Obama's Cabinet, Open Thread, Secretary of State Hillary Clinton, Ted Kennedy | 109 Comments
OPEN THREAD: This is YOUR home for all topics that are off-topic in the topical posts. Because we respect our writers here, and we don’t post off-topic items in their topical stories. We also love our writers here, and we don’t want to make them sad, which off-topic comments do — make them sad, that [...]
By Lena Grove aka nasuS on Nov 18, 2008 in Chris Matthews, Hillary Clinton, MSNBC, Open Thread, Secretary of State Hillary Clinton | 181 Comments
… you view this video. I am afraid what you might do to your computer or your monitor if you view this exchange on Hardball, unless you’ve first secured your hands. Promise me you’ve restrained your hands in some way. Okay? Now click the arrow. I know, I know … it’s disgusting and reprehensible. UPDATE [...]
By Lena Grove aka nasuS on Nov 16, 2008 in Media, Television, Open Thread | 50 Comments
Xanax? Valium? A strong anti-psychotic? NEXT, ewwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwww:
By Lena Grove aka nasuS on Nov 15, 2008 in Open Thread | 38 Comments
In celebration of the return of the Fairness Doctrine by our new one-party system of government — take that, Rush Limbaugh! — tonight we will feature puppies since, last night, we featured kitty cats. Boy, I was SO for the return of the Fairness Doctrine, especially during my Daily Kos days, but since the Democrats [...]
By Lena Grove aka nasuS on Nov 15, 2008 in Allison Davis, Chicago Mansion, Chicago politics, Crown family, Current Affairs, Michelle Obama, Richard Daley, Tony Rezko, Valerie Jarrett | 106 Comments
From the NYTimes‘s Caucus Blog, via Time‘s Mark Halperin: “Nearly two decades ago, Valerie Jarrett hired a young lawyer named Michelle Obama for a job at Chicago’s City Hall. Now President-elect Barack Obama has hired Ms. Jarrett for a senior role in the White House. “Ms. Jarrett’s role will be threefold, as is her title: [...]
By Lena Grove aka nasuS on Nov 14, 2008 in Hillary Clinton, Obama Administration | 217 Comments
(The full image of ALL the stories linked at Memeorandum.com is below the fold, and it’s a beauty.) I spoke with Larry a bit ago. He’s optimistic about this, and has some positive feelings about her potential status in an Obama White House, but it’s wisest for me to let him tell you all about [...]
By Lena Grove aka nasuS on Nov 14, 2008 in Economic Stimulus, Economy, United Kingdom | 13 Comments
I, Bronwyn’s Harbor aka Lena Grove aka nasuSPCnU* and whoever else I decide to be (!) have noticed that some esteemed observers — more about those in a later piece, hopefully today — noticed that many of the world’s great economists were MIA from Barack’s very 20th-century economic group behind him at last Friday’s press [...]
By Lena Grove aka nasuS on Nov 12, 2008 in Afghanistan, Current Affairs, Misogyny, Saudi Arabia | 39 Comments
Dear lord. I hope you saw Reverend Amy’s story many hours ago in which she recalled the great speech that C.J. gave to the press corps on “West Wing”: ““Those Women” * OPEN THREAD.”
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