James Kwak, at Baseline Scenario, discussing Invisible Hands: The Making of the Conservative Movement from the New Deal to Reagan (W.W. Norton, 2009), by Kim Phillips-Fein:
It also contains this gem for anyone who thinks the American people suddenly developed warm and fuzzy feelings about the Constitution in the past two years. Describing the 1934 founding of the American Liberty League—a rabidly anti-Roosevelt, anti-New Deal organization—she writes (p. 10):
“The main topic of discussion was creating a ‘propertyholders’ association,’ as Irénée [DuPont] put it, to disseminate ‘information as to the dangers to investors’ posed by the New Deal. The group decided that the name of their association should not refer directly to property—it would be better to frame their activities as a broad defense of the Constitution.”
From Ezra Klein, 9/9/2011:
From Andrew Sullivan via Ezra Klein, this incredible
Graphic showing US medical Errors
Yikes–everything is a new version, and each has significant differences from the former version. So what used to work doesn’t now, and you’ve got to figure out just what it is that needs doing.
Time to go to dinner.
Sheesh! Been down two days , almost three, to install a new hard drive in the server. This involves installing the new hard drive, installing new server software, and restoring former data and connections.
Wanted to try going to Ubuntu server, but that install hung up at the first install screen. (later found someone who said he has waited 7 hours before ubuntu would respond at that point). So decided to go with CentOS 6 — had been running CentOS 4, but that didn’t support PHP 5, which I needed to upgrade my WordPress installation. Turned out I’d bittorrented down the wrong Centos file, and had to go back and get the right .iso file. After burning the DVD (Oh, had to put a DVD drive into the server rather than CD), the install went fine…after a couple of hangups, and unclear install screens, but that’s par for the course with RedHat (CentOS is public distribution of RedHat Enterprise).
About 4 hours to get internet going—went to bed after that one.
Spent all day on mail, only to discover a stupid firewall error. Oh, well.
Still have to get a few web sites working; same config file, but each of four web sites have completely different problems!
I don’t need to do the Times Crossword, so long as these things come along.
I’d love to be the guy who makes up the names on Colbert’s contributors crawl.
Just got finished reading “Shit My Father Says,” by Justin Halpern. Very funny.
Here’s a query: Do you remember your father ever saying to you, “I love you.”?
Just heard a commentator on a Slate podcast use the term “harshing” — “…the critic was harshing on the film…” Harsh is now a verb?
A wise man once said to me, Never get a home that doesn’t have any places you can hide; that was very wise advice.
What it means is, Be sure there are private places. Places you can get away from whatever else is going on in your home.
I love the house we have now. It is not huge, about 1300 square feet. But it has separate areas. The dining room and living room are “open plan”, but separated by an entry way. The kitchen is its own wing. Two ‘bedrooms’–one is a guest bedroom, the other our den (or ‘viewing room’ as our grandson called it–it’s where we have our TV) are seaparted by a hallway from the rest of tehe house. The master bedroom is in a separate wing. The toilet is separated from the rest of the bathroom.
Wha I like best is that, if I’ve been watching the TV — the news, usually — I can walk out into the livingroom, and be in a completely differnt space. We like to leave some classical music playing there, something soft and quiet, and to leave the cacaphony of the TV for this place of simpleness is a joy beyond measure; I am refreshed.
South Carolina’s voting law requires a photo ID, typically a valid driver’s license. Getting a driver’s license requires showing a birth certificate. And:
No one knows how many South Carolinians don’t have a birth certificate. One indicator may be a tally by the S.C. Election Commission, which shows 178,175 voters do not own a photo ID, according to the latest available figures.
Read more: http://www.thestate.com/2011/07/17/1900835/many-face-fight-to-prove-id.html#ixzz1SnEylyqf