Archives for March 2013

Zina Saunders: Idiots with Guns.

Maddow: Make your own assault rifle.

Thom: Hanford nuclear waste on its way to the Columbia.

Voting Rights and Racial Entitlements:

• Sam Seder and Ari Burman: Will Republicans destroy the Voting Rights Act.
• Ann Telnaes: Your wasted vote.
• Ed: Scalia’s shameful comment.
• Pap: The Republican war on voting makes it to the Supreme Court.
• Young Turks: Scalia’s “Racial entitlement”.
• Thom and Pap: Should Scalia hang up his robe?
• Ann Telnaes: Courting history.

Barely Political: The Sasha and Melia show.

Thom: The Good, The Bad, and The Very, Very Ugly.

Young Turks: A stung Hannity goes after Rep. Ellison.

Sea Quest ER!

• Maddow: Congress blows sequestration, takes long weekend.
• The sequester explained.
• Susie Sampson’s Tea Party Report: What is the Sequester?
• Sharpton: Republicans pass the buck.
• Obama on the Sequester.
• Maddow: Cuts threaten America’s standing….
• Stephen on The Sequester.
• Mark Fiore: Starve the beast.

Rep. Ellison (D-MN) attacks Sean Hannity on his show (via TalkingPointsMemo).

White House: West Wing Week.

Jon: Merger Mania.

Going Drone:

• Ann Telnaes: Drones? What drones?
• Liberal Viewer: Limit on Obama’s flying killer robots.

Ed: Michele Bachmann is very proud that she didn’t get anything wrong….

Hanford: 6 leaking tanks.

Young Turks: Louie “Guber” Gohmert.

Seattle Police using crime prediction software.

Jimmy Kimmel: Unnecessary censorship.

WoodwardGate:

• Sam Seder: Bob Woodward threatened by WH advisor’s…kindness?
• Young Turks: “Threat”.
• Bill Press calls Bob a HorsesAss!
• Ed: The Right Wing’s brand new hero!
• Jon: Ginned up controversy.

Maddow: Michigan gives up on democracy.

Thom: The NRA’s latest conspiracy theory.

Wrestlers have a message for Glenn Beck (via Indecision Forever).

Young Turks: Congress finally passes the Violence Against Women Act.

Conan: The final benediction.

Young Turks: Is Hannity the Worst Journalist Ever?

Thom: More Good, Bad, and Very, Very Ugly.

Last week’s Friday Night Multimedia Extravaganza can be found here.

Even though I’m a curmudgeonly urban dweller who doesn’t want kids, I’m glad the city put in a playground in Westlake Park.

The year-round play area will include a soft, rubber-like surfacing and a Geode by Goric. This large, netted spherical structure and a collection of large domes will be surrounded by a fence with bench seating in some areas. The design and elements involved were selected specifically with sightlines and function in mind, as the structures do not obstruct views to the retail spaces and through the park. The Geode is designed to be used by children up to 12 years old.

As long time readers of this blog know, when the Fun Forest left Goldy agitated for it to be replaced with a kick ass playground. And while Seattle got the Chihuly museum, well, the reasons to support more playgrounds and more amenities for children are generally true. Making the city more accommodating to all sorts of people, not just those of us who are young and childless, is a worthwhile goal.

In the wake of the supreme court ruling that a majority is needed for a tax increase like the state constitution says, Rodney Tom has decided to huff and puff about it and maybe change the rules.

Senate Majority Leader Rodney Tom, the Democrat who abandoned his caucus to lead a Republican majority, has issued a statement explaining his plot to make an end-run around today’s state supreme court decision. That ruling found a two-thirds voting requirement is unconstitutional. But Senator Tom says never mind: tweaking parliamentary rules could mandate a nearly-impossible-to-attain two-thirds majority for any tax increases.

I’m not sure how you change the rules in the middle of the session. I assume he can if he’s proposing it, and it’s just a bad idea instead of an empty threat. But if he’s as sure as he seems to be about the caucus he’s leading, I don’t see why the 2/3 rule would be necessary.