Aug 20, 2013
Greg Dworkin's abbreviated round-up focused on the continuing march into the Republican civil war, and how it's playing in 2014 Senate and gubernatorial races, and of course, 2016. A little news of the weird to kick things off: fellow Kossack and KITM listener RobertRBest tips us off to the CNN story about an EMT who treated a heart attack victim, while having a heart attack himself! Next, the story of the shutdown of the legal analysis blog Groklaw. Or more specifically, the difference between the way The Guardian treated it and the way Business Insider treated it. Way weird. Then, Jeffrey Toobin's latest litany of complaints about Snowden. There are no winners here, folks. I've never wanted out of the debate more. Kevin Drum's getting fed up with it, too. After that, we meander through what amounts (in hindsight) to a political/historical justification of my television watching habits. And later, with observations from GideonAB, we throw Harry Reid and the Congressional Democratic leadership into the mix. But I hope it's actually more interesting than it sounds on "paper"! At least there's a hat tip to College Humor in it, anyway. Next, a tip via Daily Kos message center from oSivan on an unreported GunFAIL incident out of Iowa, and the very much reported story of an AR-15 owner in Tennessee who somehow burned his house down and killed himself and his son with an accidental discharge. Wrapping up: PPP polling on background check popularity in AR, TN & GA.