So it turns out that like most of us, Dr. Rice was unhappy about the way Katrina turned out.

Well, maybe not like most of us.

It was bound to happen. Matt Cooper, to whom Karl Rove leaked Valerie Wilson’s identity, is now reporting on Karl Rove again (at his new digs over at TPM). Better yet, Matt suggests Turdblossom may have miscalculated in his efforts to avoid testifying before the House Judiciary Committee.

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Finally he materializes after taking his case to the American people via talk shows. And what does Lightnin’ Rod Blagojevich have to say for himself before being bipartisanly impeached?

‘Nathniel Flick,’ COIN and the limits of social-networking cartography.

Seems the misogynistic mind-set that caricatures “stewardesses” as offering “coffee, tea or me” on jumbo jets isn’t a sorry relic from the past. Not at Spirit Airlines, anyway.

A set of ads by Spirit insults and demeans customers, employees and future customers, says Flight Attendants-CWA union President Pat Friend, who calls the marketing campaign “regressive, distasteful and debasing.”

One ad features a large-busted blond woman with M.I.L.F. in huge letters above her and the Spirit version—Many Islands Low Fares—in much smaller type below. Right.

Some people just don’t know when to leave the party. I’m talking to Yoo.

House Republicans all voted against the stimulus bill, after getting a couple key concessions. The Blue Dogs only allowed it to pass after Obama told them he would institute pay-go rules going forward, meaning that all new expenditures and tax cuts must be matched either by cuts in spending or raised taxes.

How’s all this working out for them?

If left unchecked, the Blue Dogs could become a bigger obstacle than the Republicans to the change people voted for in November.

Along with new air strikes on Gaza wounding women and children, yesterday Israeli troops fired “warning shots” at a group of diplomats, including the French consul-general. The French got out alive – but so many Gazans have not and new reports of the orders given Israeli soldiers point again to a need for investigations and prosecutions of war crimes.