Browsing archives for January 15th, 2009

Programming Note

Politics 15 January 2009 | 4 Comments

Unless I missed a memo again, we here at Moue have no plans to cover the President’s farewell to the nation tonight. In a similar vein, we also have no plans to claw out our own eyeballs, shove bamboo splinters under our fingernails, wolf down shards of broken glass, gargle lava, listen to any Genesis [...]

A Convenient Litany of Abuses

Bush Admin, Politics 15 January 2009 | 3 Comments

The other day in the Washington Post, Dan Froomkin provided us all with a one-stop catalog of, um, catalogs of the failures of the Bush presidency, page after page of quotes from politicos and pundits near and far, the vast majority incredulous about just what has been going on for the last eight years. For [...]

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Foxes and Chicken Coops

Uncategorized 15 January 2009 | 2 Comments

One of the hallmarks of the soon-to-be-over Bush administration has been the tendency to appoint people as heads of an agency who actually think that the agency shouldn’t exist, and want to destroy it.  Knowing that, the reports coming out about the Voting Rights division at DOJ shouldn’t be too shocking.  And yet somehow, they [...]

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Clinton Clears Committee Despite Vitter’s Objections

General Politics, Politics 15 January 2009 | 1 Comment

Via Reuters:
The Senate Foreign Relations Committee voted 16-1 in favor of the appointment, clearing a key hurdle to her appointment as the top U.S. diplomat.
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Sen. David Vitter, a Louisiana Republican who this week questioned Clinton about her husband’s raising of foreign funds for his charity, was the sole negative vote.
Vitter, Vitter… Where have I heard [...]

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Indie Retailer of the Day: Irene Suchocki

Uncategorized 15 January 2009 | 0 Comments

Moody scenes, dramatic lighting and square prints!  I love me some square prints.  Additionally, if you shoot her a convo, Irene Suchoki will talk to you about either matting the print for a more conventional size or framing it in a square frame for you.

the swing set, 8″ x 8″ Fine Art Print