Being that it is Halloween, I thought it might be fun if we all shared scary tales about things that go bump in the night. I have two such tales, and they are true as far as I can attest, but then again, I was a child of the 60′s, [...]

appreciate an alternative to HP. arianna has becoming increasingly unbearable. love the limericks!

An interesting phenomenon has begun spontaneously at Huffington Post, beginning a couple weeks ago and growing by the day.  There has been no overt communication amonst the regulars but a lot of reading between the lines.  As you all are aware, that site has become infested with not only the [...]

It’s HuffNo Friday and time to let down at The Planet after a long week. There’s KQ’s thread for laughs and music an Afghanistan thread for discussions of substance and this thread to unload about, satirize and skewer The Huffington Post. I posted this on the music thread but I [...]

I mentioned in a comment earlier that I heard a sobering interview with Matthew Hoh on NPR that was very convincing about why we should leave Afghanistan. Matthew Hoh is the U.S. Diplomat who resigned in protest over our war in Afghanistan (did he think he was Joe Biden or [...]

HuffNo FRIDAY!!! I know it’s early to start the party but I’m just too psyched about HuffNo so I can’t wait to get things going.  Now someone else can start a serious thread for HuffNo Friday if they want but I’m serious about my music. I have a very eclectic [...]

By Orac, Respectful Insolence Not long ago, I wrote a post warning about how funding for non-science-based modalities and, indeed, modalities that are purely religion-based, have found their way into various versions of health care reform bills that are currently wending their way through both houses of Congress. In other [...]

The Huffington Post has sparked a national blatherfest with a series of posts by self-help guru Marcus Buckingham, which Arianna, in her trademark breathless fashion, blurbs as “the sad, shocking truth about how women are feeling.”

The Huffington Post has sparked a national blatherfest with a series of posts by self-help guru Marcus Buckingham, which Arianna, in her trademark breathless fashion, blurbs as “the sad, shocking truth about how women are feeling.”

A day early!  Seriously, I’m trying like hell to stir discontent and general grump-hood at Huff this Thurs, and there is not any freaking traffic! Try!   Try to find a thread with any action.    I defy you! Be ready to dash over Friday and net the fish. Which puts me [...]

The House presented its health care reform bill today. So naturally, the top story at HuffPo this evening, at this moment, written by Damn…I mean Dame Arianna herself  is “Huffington Post Game Changers! Vote!”. You may criticize Arianna for her opportunism, misrepresentation, fear of criticism and enormous feet but she [...]

The House has announced that it has a healthcare reform bill with a public option that it will release to the floor next week.  The bill will not reimburse providers at Medicare rates +5% which is a big disappointment but it will contain a public option where reimbursement rates will [...]

Arrianics!   Today is Thursday!   (I know because my wife kicked me out of bed to drag the trash to the kerb) Tomorrow is HuffNo Friday.    It is our hope here that you will refrain from visiting Huff tomorrow.   Unless perhaps it is to urge others to come here.   But the [...]

Apologies to my new POV friends if this is a little thin to be a post.   I don’t have the time to research this further right away but wow, I am hopping mad having just learned that Senator Bayh’s wife is on the board of Wellpoint and had earned [...]

The “Matthew Shepard & James Byrde, Jr. Hate Crimes Prevention Act was signed today by President Obama. This is a great Bill, a long time coming. Localities can succumb too easily to the prejudices of their populations, & making these FEDERAL crimes pulls that potential of injustice out of the [...]

Reading through the AP and Reuters wire articles last night and today it’s clear that the corporate media wants the public option dead and buried. To use an analogy apropos from the season based on what the corporate media has reported the public option has been killed and comeback from [...]

My name is Adlib and I’m an Ariannic. I was addicted to The Huffington Post for two years. I have been in recovery for 9 months and I feel like I have my life back. Sometimes, I feel the urge to pick up the mouse and go back to my [...]

The use of anonymous sources in the media, has blurred the line for bloggers and journalists alike. Don’t have a source, but you believe something is true (or not), print it anyway, subscribed to that ubiquitous anon source, no responsibility on your part to prove your premise. Yesterday I landed [...]

Ok, still trying to figure this site out, but I am glad to see many familiar “faces” here.  Looks like there is a growing dissatisfaction with Huff Post and I hope this site is not as restrictive and the trolls will still be over there.  The place was overrun today [...]

Joe Lieberman is quoted by TPM to promise to side with Republicans on a filibuster to kill the public option. Who’s surprised? Raise your hands. Anyone? This is the same crazed human incarnation of Droopy the Dog who attacked Obama in the Primary, applauded Sarah Palin and voted to put [...]

Yesterday Harry Skywalker blew up the death star when he decided to add the public option to the Senate healthcare bill that is going to the floor but Darth Lieberman who was the only prominent member of the Democratic caucus to campaign for McCain has vowed to join a Republican [...]

Spend some time at The Huffington Post and before too long you will see a reference to Fox News that won’t appear on any of their promos. “Faux News”, “Fixed News”, “Fake News”, on and on (and those are the polite ones). The obvious inference is that Fox News is [...]

Regarding Hairyanna’s turn against Obama, and by Dog she was four-square in his corner right up to Nov 10 (HRC could not catch a break at Huff, you will recall), I am reminded of some comments I made about Plush. During the General I occasionally commented that I was so [...]

Do trolls help us to sharpen our wits and clarify our thoughts? Or are they an annoying interruption?

The “drama”, the bogus articles about “infighting” & the “Presidents reluctance to support the Public Option” (all to eagerly parroted on Huffington Post).. the nonsense about “triggers” was simply political brinkmanship by MASTERS.