Mitchell, the beloved pilot on CNN’s endless missing plane flight simulator segments, fired for “shaming” Canada.
We’d hoped to open the beta testing phase of our new comments system to the larger community this evening. We just about got there. But there was one more performance enhancement we wanted to do before we did so. We hope to have the beta larger for the whole community tomorrow morning.
For those who watch these things the exquisitely fragile glass jaw of the Brian Ross investigative unit at ABC News has been an extremely open secret for roughly forever. And now it seems like ABC’s (extremely ill-considered fight) to try to force its way into a Pulitzer Prize could bring it all out. Here’s the story – where they’re burned scorchingly by the folks they’re trying to take the prize from.
For those life forms that subsist on schadenfreude, this could be the feast of all feasts.
Must read from TPM Reader SB …
I know from my personal experience that people with strong racial and other biases are unlikely to admit those biases even to themselves. I grew up in a Republican family. My parents voted the straight Republican ticket in every election. They never espoused hatred toward blacks, hispanics, Jews, or any other group.
It’s thrilling to have a weekly blog on TPM – at least for the next nine weeks while our series, Years of Living Dangerously, runs on Showtime. As Josh noted a few days ago, the two of us go back to when his office was a corner table in the Starbuck’s north of Dupont Circle and he wrote TPM all by himself.
Early along, when my partner, Joel Bach, and I were searching for strong characters who could help tell the climate change story, I hopped on a plane for Lubbock, Texas, to meet Dr. Katharine Hayhoe, who teaches climate science at Texas Tech. I’d heard a lot about Katharine – a distinguished climate scientist who’s also an Evangelical Christian.
I think TPM Reader RC is imputing naiveté where what I was expressing was more a matter cognitive dissonance on latter-day Ron Paul and his role as – no other way to say it – prominent figure in far-right white nationalist politics. But powerful personal account from RC …
I must take issue with you on this comment, although I certainly understand it:
“Personally, I have to say that it’s always been difficult for me to square this history with the kindly old guy many of us got to know in recent years.”
This is in fact a summation of the entire conservative view that “nice” people can’t be racists, or that only outwardly vicious people can be called such. It’s problematic and it’s more than a little naïve.
Appeals Court crushes lawsuit claiming Senate filibuster is unconstitutional.
New mugshot to become key part of the arcana of the ‘Shoe Truth’ movement.
Just a quick update on comments. We are tentatively – I stress, tentatively – planning to roll out our new comments system to the full TPM community late in the day tomorrow. The new system will still be in beta. So we’ll be looking for bug reports if you have them and tips or suggestions on functionality and so forth. In case you missed it, here’s our primer on the new system from last Friday on how the new system works.
So why do the Bundy Ranch militia folks think local sheriffs can disarm federal agents? Here’s why.