Up With Chris Hayes – Culture Wars Video 2/11/12

Does birth control matter to you? Have a socially progressive pet issue? Chances are it’s covered in this weeks Up With Chris Hayes.

1960 called, they want their politics back

Most of my regular readers know I watch every weekend (DVR and online baby! I like to get my beauty-sleep!) and I’m never dissapointed by the dissection discussion. It mimics the feel of coffee with friends after college classes. When all the nerds   my friends and I would gather to add to our professors latest insight, or have a running commentary on the economic impact of default student loans over cheap beer at Becky’s.

Long story short, I dig it. What can I say? I’m a fan.

I’ve read a few books based on show guests, and I haven’t been dissapointed yet.

Baratunde Thurston’s How to Be Black was drop dead hilarious.  I listened to it through my audible account while insomnia/packing and guffawed rather loudly a number of times. I was able to grin while packing (no easy feat) and learn a few things along the way, and according to How to be Black I’m well on my way to cafe au lait. (Happy February, lol, Wink Wink @baratunde )

Next on my list is Going Solo by one of Saturday’s guests, Eric Kinenberg.  He sold me when he commented on our culture’s conflation of “Living alone, being alone, and being lonely” .
Huzzah sir, you’re right on point!

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Going Solo- Kindle Edition

–> CAN.NOT.WAIT. For Melissa Harris-Perry’s show next week. She nailed her analysis of marriage, religious controls,  and women’s control of their fertility! She’s such a smarty pants!

http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/32545640

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Damn Strait Romney, We Are the Interrupters! (Video)

Mitt Romney – Mic Checked at Ormond Beach, January 22, 2012.

Mic checked at a rally in Florida, Mitt Romney was “interrupted” with shouts of

“Corporations are not people, We are the people. USA USA USA USA USA USA “

His response, delivered with a furrowed brow, was followed by the trademark Awkward slimey Romney smile, although it was drowned out by the chants of the OWS crowd shouting USA! USA!

“Actually, these are the people…These are the people, you’re the interrupters!…We believe in the Constitution. We believe in the right to speech. And you believe in interrupting. Take a hike!”

Although he surely meant it as an insult, snapping at the OWS protesters “You believe in interrupting” was anything but.

I must say I take that as a compliment.

Isn’t an interruption a good thing from time to time?  

I assert that OWS is attempting to interrupt a runaway train.

Not just the runaway train of GOP idiocy, but the runaway train called America,we’ve all been chained to, seemingly hijacked by the corporate elite from which Romney has emerged. (Swamp thing visual)

In any event, I can’t wait for Romney to come to Ohio in March. (muahhahaha)

Make way for the interrupters Mittens, their voice will only grow louder!

When Romney Ran Bain Capital

From the The Washington Post:

America has been learning a lot lately about “the Bain way.” The damning 28-minute video “When Mitt Romney Came to Town,” put out by a pro-Newt Gingrich super PAC, and the new book “The Real Romney,” by Boston Globe reporters Michael Kranish and Scott Helman, have shed light on the strategies that Mitt Romney’s old private-equity firm, Bain Capital, used to generate outsize returns for its investors.

When Romney Ran Bain Capital, His Word Was Not His Bond – America has been learning a lot lately http://ow.ly/1gKaDH

Up with Chris Hayes-GOP Debate Recap-12-11-11

If you couldn’t drag your arse out of bed Sunday morning in time to catch  the weekend morning show Up with Chris Hayes, (I overslept myself) Watch it here. The Debate wrap up is definitely worth the time, especially if you’re a fellow Political Junkie.

I really wish there was transcript available for this particular show. This group of analysts articulated quite a few of my own take-aways from Saturday’s debate.

http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/32545640

I’ll probably re-watch this and pick out some of the points I thought were most relevant, and those I think are complete rubbish.

I’d LOVE to know what bits of the GOP debate got your knickers in a twist! please comment away

~The Vault

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