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Aside from the fact that the Republicans and the right wing had decided long before January 20, 2009, that the Obama presidency would be a failure and that they would do everything they could to make it so, the simple fact remains that human nature is such that it is easier to convince the people that a vapor trail off the coast of California is a precursor to an invasion by the Borg than it is to convince 95% of the taxpaying public that their taxes actually went down last year. The more outrageous the story, the easier it is to sell. Orson Welles knew that in 1938; so did P.T. Barnum, and so did the folks who came up with the whiz-bang story that the universe was created in six days. After all, which sounds better; the Garden of Eden and a talking snake or a long boring science lecture on microbes adapting to a planet with carbon and water?

I think if someone had showed up with a laser pointer in the House gallery and pointed it at the wall, we could have distracted the entire Republican caucus throughout the entire debate.

Friday Blogaround

March came in like a frosty lion. Here's how the LC saw it.

- A Blog Around The Clock digs paleontology.
- archy: avalanche!
- Bark Bark Woof Woof: Karl Rove is back.
- Bloggg: darn right Moi's mad.
- Dohiyi Mir: playing the lottery with votes.
- Echidne Of The Snakes: No yeast for you, Blanche.
- Florida Progressive Coalition Blog: five good stories about Florida politics.
- Left Is Right: Popular Science's archives are on-line.
- Pen-Elayne on the Web: watch this video and try not to yell "Moustrap!"
- Rook's Rant's Sunday night is a lot like mine.
- rubber hose confronts another obstacle.
- Scrutiny Hooligans and the gang stands behind same-sex domestic partner benefits.
- Stupid Enough Unexplanation reality vs. the dictionary.
- The Invisible Library and writing on writing.
- The Yellow Something Something with one silver lining in the Texas primary.
- WTF Is It Now?? -- Did you know that the ACORN videos were faked?

The blogosphere will be a little less entertaining without Jon Swift.

Friday Blogaround

This was another interesting week. Let's see how the LC saw it.

- A Blog Around The Clock: may I have the envelope, please...
- archy gets published.
- Bark Bark Woof Woof: King of the nuts.
- Bloggg: they spy.
- Dohiyi Mir: a crash of symbols.
- Echidne Of The Snakes: making a killing.
- Florida Progressive Coalition Blog: a fifty-state strategy.
- Left Is Right: bits and pieces.
- Pen-Elayne on the Web: Jeff 'n' Erin's EPIC wedding.
- Rook's Rant: an end and a beginning.
- rubber hose: Syria beckons.
- Scrutiny Hooligans: place your calls.
- Stupid Enough Unexplanation: FDR
- The Invisible Library: plotting away.
- The Yellow Something Something: Steve sums up the summit.
- WTF Is It Now?? birther control.

March on.

Friday Blogaround

We're only a week into this year and it's already getting weird... thudding iguanas? Here's how the LC saw it.

- A Blog Around The Clock: Are you ready for ScienceOnline 2010?
- All Facts and Opinions is back with a personal note.
- archy... and it has palm trees!
- Bark Bark Woof Woof: tea and loathing.
- Bloggg: the secret ingredient.
- Dohiyi Mir: Gaza freedom update.
- Echidne Of The Snakes: the individual mandate.
- Florida Progressive Coalition Blog: how others see us -- Florida politics from the outside.
- ...I Am A Tree with memories of forgotten days.
- Left Is Right with bits and pieces for the week.
- Pen-Elayne on the Web with the Pink Glove Dance.
- Rook's Rant meditates on the new (?) year.
- rubber hose with observations from afar.
- Scrutiny Hooligans: zero growth.
- Stupid Enough Unexplanation: waiting for the adults.
- The Invisible Library and the heretics of Dune.
- The Yellow Something Something: Do you feel safer? D'oh!
- WTF Is It Now?? more bad news for Obama.

Stay warm... I know the feeling.

Friday Blogaround

Good-bye 2009, hello 2010. Here's how the LC saw the last week of the Oughts.

- A Blog Around The Clock: Science vs. Politics.
- archy has a few comments.
- Bark Bark Woof Woof looks back and forward.
- Bloggg finds a helpful Trader.
- Dohiyi Mir: Sam makes his first plane trip.
- Echidne Of The Snakes on Janet Napolitano facing facts.
- Florida Progressive Coalition Blog: "Corporatism" is discussed on the air.
- Musing's musings updates us on his sleeping places this year.
- Pen-Elayne on the Web offers an alternative end to The Wizard of Oz.
- Rook's Rant: if he only had a heart....
- rubber hose: and noz jr. makes three.
- Scrutiny Hooligans: If you're going to sin...
- Stupid Enough Unexplanation discovers that all liberals really want is to be naked.
- The Yellow Something Something finds out that life is better.
- WTF Is It Now?? Feeling Rush's and Karl's pain.

And the beat goes on.

Friday Blogaround

Yet another wild week. Here's how the LC saw it.

- A Blog Around The Clock: under the sea...
- archy: circling the drain.
- Bark Bark Woof Woof: it's not over.
- Bloggg: Moi might go to the (progressive) PA conference.
- Dohiyi Mir: it might work after all.
- Echidne Of The Snakes takes on Richard Cohen's hilarious question.
- Florida Progressive Coalition Blog reviews the week in Florida politics.
- Left Is Right: bits and pieces.
- Pen-Elayne on the Web: playing with food.
- rubber hose and the missus are on their way to Central Asia for two months.
- Scrutiny Hooligans and the vulnerable ones.
- Steve Bates, The Yellow Doggerel Democrat: we've been had.
- Stupid Enough Unexplanation: you have to understand the argument before you make it.
- WTF Is It Now?? -- Simon's cat's first snowfall.

School's out for the next two weeks. What will I do?

Friday Blogaround

Here's the LC blogaround:

- A Blog Around The Clock: who's who at ScienceOnline 2010
- archy: world-class incoherence.
- Bark Bark Woof Woof: now what in Afghanistan?
- Bloggg: Moi is not happy with the president.
- Dohiyi Mir: Happy Advent.
- Echidne Of The Snakes on Mr. Warren's profession.
- Florida Progressive Coalition Blog: life's a beach.
- ...I Am A Tree: stats.
- Left Is Right: the speech Mike wishes Obama had made.
- Musing's musings: will they heed the warnings?
- Pen-Elayne on the Web: a belated happy birthday, Elayne!
- Rook's Rant on Frankencensed Republicans.
- rubber hose has neatly summarized our Afghanistan dilemma.
- Scrutiny Hooligans on the courage it takes to be civil.
- Steve Bates agrees that we cannot afford this war.
- Stupid Enough Unexplanation: justice is weeping.
- WTF Is It Now?? Good luck, Huck

Are you sick of Christmas commercials yet?

• Quotes from A Blog Around The Clock
• Tough to pick, there being two very good examples of stupidity over at Archy.
• Keeping with the theme of quotes, MB at Bark Bark Woof Woof has a good one from the Onion.
• Okay, I have to be honest here; I was a fan of Donnie and Marie. I get the feeling Moi over at Bloggg is as well, though that is not stated. But what I did not know - Donnie is on Dancing With The Stars. Doesn't he qualify as a ringer?
• The Blogmother of many a blogger, Adante of Collective Sigh, always deserves a link.
• NTodd, who has yet to beat me at Bloggers Chess, flips the gender argument in paying for health insurance and then keeps on going.
• Echidne Of The Snakes points out the same argument as NTodd, but from another source. I would point out that Echidne has not beaten me in Bloggers Chess as well, but I am afraid of Snake Goddesses.
• Mr. Quinnell once again explains why he is a liberal.
• Mike at Left Is Right finds someone beginning to see the light. Honest to FSM, after reading his post, I looked out the window, expecting to see killer asteroids streaking from space.
• Chief at Liberty Street notices today's religious wars are less about which religion, and more about a person approach to religion.
• Musing's Musings muses on Poppies.
• Elayne and her family!
• The one where I (Rook) make an effort to get you to join a Facebook club, Being Liberal.
• upyernoz at Rubber Hose notices the hypocrisy of the DC Catholic archdiocese.
• Tom Sullivan of Scrutiny Hooligans gives a bit of a geography lesson. Oh, and talks about Blue Dogs. Also, discusses the Health Care Reform bill. I think that's about it.
• I'm not sure, but I think Bryant at Stupid Enough Unexplanation is comparing two blank canvasses.
• The Tree tweets. That just sounds wrong.
• Proof - Proof! I tell you that Maru is a Firefly fan, in a post that is absolutely not about Firefly.
• Steve of The Yellow Something Something (whaaaa?) points out the impending self-imposed dead-line that President Obama's Justice Department established for decisions on Guantánamo prosecutions.

Friday Blogaround

Here's the week as seen by the Liberal Coalition.

- A Blog Around The Clock: Feed on these.
- archy on Fort Hood
- Bark Bark Woof Woof: As Maine went...
- Bloggg: College watch.
- Dohiyi Mir: NTodd writes to Congress.
- Echidne Of The Snakes begins to celebrate her sixth anniversary of blogging.
- Florida Progressive Coalition Blog: Five stories to read.
- ...I Am A Tree has a great picture for autumn.
- Iddybud Journal on Huffington on Obama, Plouffe, and the Media.
- Left Is Right and the UN's vote record on Cuba.
- Pen-Elayne on the Web gets elemental about dessert.
- Rook's Rant on the Republicans undoing Reagan's success.
- rubber hose survives the Philly transit strike and tells the tale.
- Scrutiny Hooligans: "Our weapon is fear."
- Speedkill: heehee.
- Steve Bates, The Yellow Doggerel Democrat, reports on the election in Texas.
- Stupid Enough Unexplanation with a good article from Townhall.
- The Invisible Library notes that it's National Novel Writing Month.
- WTF Is It Now?? with Jon Stewart.