Evening Edition is an Open Thread

1 Shell defends deep-water oil production, as profits soar

by Ben Perry, AFP

Thu Jul 29, 12:30 pm ET

No Keith, Rachel.  The Boys are back in town.

8 – 2 last night, much more entertaining than a no-hitter.  Jon, I’m going to give you some personal advice, once that beard starts itching in a week or two you won’t be able to get rid of it fast enough.

Men of Honor is good, but not so good I’d watch it twice in a row.  Charlie is the Johnny Depp version.  New Mythbusters @ 9- Bottle Bash.

• AMC– The Mummy
• ESPN– Cards @ Mets
• ABC Family– Charlie and the Chocolate Factory
• FX– Men of Honor x 2
• History– American Pickers, Pawn Stars (I’m tired of hyping Chasing Mummies, it’s just not that good)
• Turner Classic– Yesterday’s Enemy, Fail Safe
• Discovery– Mythbusters, Dirty Jobs
• TLC– Toddlers & Tiaras

Later-

• AMC– Troy (Joey, do you like movies about gladiators?)
• SciFi– Haven
• Turner Classics– Network
• USA– Burn Notice (this week’s)

Dave has Michael Keaton and The Flaming Lips.  Jon has Robert L. O’Connell, Stephen Elon Musk.  Alton does Molasses.

Ice Station Impossible is the introduction of Professor (voice of Stephen Colbert) and Sally Impossible, and Pete White and Billy Quizboy.  It includes the death of Race Bannon (Yeah, they never show that part on TV.)

Does Random House have some kind of deal where it’s authors can’t be listed in Wikipedia?

Evening Edition is an Open Thread

1 100 days in, Gulf spill leaves ugly questions unanswered

by Andrew Gully, AFP

2 hrs 9 mins ago

You know, sometimes you run across a 6 foot tall white pooka of a sentence-

You can read about his gibberish at that last Media Matters link, but here is what fascinates me strangely, precisely because of its ubiquity to the point of banality for anyone who has been paying even glancing attention at right wing thought or what passes for same as it pertains to race lately, an observatory group that includes myself, a fact that is in no small part what has kept me from posting much in recent days, because it is all so inexpressibly wearying, dreadful, insipid, hateful, and fucked up, is this especial snippet of squalor squirted by Mr. Lord, a specimen whose credentials include a gig as a former assistant political fluffer for Zombie Ronald Reagan and assorted dusty, unattractive Pennsylvanian electoral fossils, and who is currently non-gainfully employed as a right-wing-crazy welfare recipient, and whose contemporary written work reveals him as an all-around unpleasant opinion-pustule so virulent that he roundly deserves to be sent to Hell with the task of diagramming this sentence and explaining precisely why it is grammatically correct to a gang of glue-huffing eighth-grade Republican byblows whose parents never loved them and who are also stupid and ugly, or else just Tucker Carlson.

Color me impressed.

Look, to be as close to the bone as may be sliced, “conservatives” have detected in their typical brutally nonsensical thud-thud-hack-chomp-burp fashion that there is a certain power, a certain magic, a certain force to the capacity to call someone a “racist” and make it stick, and as they can dully discern that the “call you racist” Ring is a One Ring to Rule them All, rhetorically related to the “Support this Stupid War Or You Hate America Ring,” which they already collected from the slack-jowled Dwarf-Lord twerps in their fucking Halls of Stone or Connecticut, namely a beardless and quite smackable Joe Lieberman, they covets it, this racism-detecting precious, they covets it, yesss; and while nobody likes Gollum, he’s more presentable than Dan Riehl, but what’s the essential difference, I axe you?

Well, I’ve wrestled with reality for 35 years Doctor and I’m happy to state I finally won out over it.

Here’s a pair of interesting factoids from Think Progress–

The first is that 96% of the $9.1 BILLION in the special Iraq reconstruction fund set up with the proceeds from Iraqi oil sales can’t be accounted for.

96%.

The second is that Fox News viewers are 1.38% African-American.

Umm… in the polling biz we call that statistically insignificant because it’s within the margin of error.  It’s just as likely that there’s not a SINGLE African-American who watches Fox.

‘But ek’, you say.  ‘What about Michael Steele?’

If you were getting the kind of coverage Michael Steele is getting, would you be watching Fox?

If you took my advice and watched ESPN last night you saw the 5th No-Hitter of the year and the first ever for the Devil Rays.

Yawn.

Comedy starts off with Futurama but rapidly declines.  ESPN has World Series of Poker!

I’m tempted to live blog.

No Keith, Rachel.  The Boys are back.

• FX– Enemy of the State
• History– Repeat of the most recent Top Shot @ 10
• SciFi– Last week’s and new Warehouse 13
• Turner Classic– The West Point Story (What a wacky concept!)
• Discovery– Finale of Deadliest Catch @ 9
• Toon– I’ve perhaps been unappreciative of Unnatural History, last week’s and new

• VH1– Ochocinco: The Ultimate Catch.  I kid you not.

Later-

Dave has Luke Wilson and Dierks Bentley.  Jon interviews Fareed Zakaria, Stephen Kevin Kline.  The late Futurama is Bender Should Not Be Allowed on TV, one on my favorite episodes.

Alton cooks Brussels Spouts.  I love them!  Ghosts of the Sargasso introduces the X-2 and the Pirate Captain who both eventually end up with Jonas Venture Jr.

• Turner Classic– The Winning Team

Ronald Wilson Reagan playing Grover Cleveland Alexander, what could be better than that?

Evening Edition is an Open Thread

1 ‘Demonised’ BP boss Hayward resigns over Gulf oil spill

by Roland Jackson, AFP

12 mins ago

Every time our policy elites whine about how hard it is to be them I just have to laugh.

What they mean is it’s hard to keep the lies straight in the face of the truth.

No more ‘me first’ mentality on entitlements

By Neel Kashkari, The Washington Post

Monday, July 26, 2010

Cutting entitlement spending requires us to think beyond what is in our own immediate self-interest. But it also runs against our sense of fairness: We have, after all, paid for entitlements for earlier generations. Is it now fair to cut my benefits? No, it isn’t. But if we don’t focus on our collective good, all of us will suffer.

Getting Lost in the Fog of War

By ANDREW EXUM, The New York Times

Published: July 26, 2010

Many experts on the war, both in the military and the press, have long been struggling to come to grips with the conflict’s complexity and nuances. What is the public going to make of this haphazard cache of documents, many written during combat by officers with little sense of how their observations fit into the fuller scope of the war?

No Keith, Rachel.  The Boys are back in town.

• AMC– Tin Cup is much better than the last Rene Russo movie I brought to your attention, almost watchable.
• ESPN– Tigers @ Devil Rays
• History– American Pickers, Pawn Stars
• SciFi– Last week’s Warehouse 13
• TBS– Family Guy (they seem to be showing Stewie Kills Lois Kills Stewie in reverse order), Season Finale of Neighbors From Hell @ 10:30
• Turner Classic– How the West Was Won
• Discovery– Last week’s and new Ultimate Car Build-Off
• TLC– Cake Boss
• TNT– The Closer last week’s and new
• Toon– New Adventure Time With Finn & Jake, Marvelous Misadventures of Flapjack, Total Drama World Tour, Stoked

Later-

• AMC– Repeat of the Season 4 Premier of Mad Men
• History– Chasing Mummies: Grand Gallery
• Turner Classic– Duel in the Sun

Dave has Denis Leary, Albert Pujols, and Jimmy Webb.  Jon has William Rosen (on Steam Power), Stephen has Hephzibah Anderson (on a year of chastity), the Futurama repeats include Lethal Inspection.  Alton is doing waffles.  Eeney, Meeney, Miney…Magic! is the introduction of Dr. Orpheus.

Evening Edition is an Open Thread

1 BP boss expected to quit but new payoff row looms

AFP

2 hrs 19 mins ago