It might seem to some unfair to some that a mind as sharp as Baker’s would consistently subject a pixilated, regional paper like the WaPo to such shame and humiliation, but since I live in DC and this is what passes for news in this town I’m okay with it.

Via WVBlue, I see that some out-of-state goober has decided the strategery for WV’s Republican party in the 2010 election cycle is….*sound of trumpets*…SCARY GAY PEOPLE! Complete with an offensive video (YouTube) that includes a gay sniper about the shoot at a family blowing bubbles.  I kid you not.  The sniper scope view aimed at the heterosexual family shows up at :58. Beyond offensive. Why target WV?   Because they think we are too stupid to think for ourselves.  We’ve had to deal with this level of GOP dumbassery before

Steve Rattner will just have to settle for his private equity millions, he’s been robbed of a position in the administration playing vroom vroom — by a group of people, some of whom will hopefully know what they’re doing.

Labels, more than just something for a lapel pin.

Sonia Dada – Lover (You Don’t Treat Me No Good No More).

What’s on your mind tonight?

There is really nothing too small or petty that it won’t make these people go batshit crazy(ier).

Original source story:

A bust of the former prime minister once voted the greatest Briton in history, which was loaned to George W Bush from the Government’s art collection after the September 11 attacks, has now been formally handed back.

Angry at city-sophisticated California’s approval of Proposition 2 because of “warm and fuzzy” arguments about animal treatment, a group of rural California farmers proposes a novel way to split California into two states: create a 13-county Chile-like Coastal California, or West California, as America’s 51st State.

As the debate on Afghanistan heats up, some questions need answers.

The Politico tells us what we already know, but which most of the mainstream press won’t mention — namely, that Norm Coleman is pursuing his doomed challenge to Al Franken’s being seated as our newest Senator because the national Republican Party has ordered him to do so come hell or high water.

The facts are grimmer than people would like to admit: Iceland’s economy is expected to contract by 10%, Spain has an unemployment rate of 14.4%
It is no wonder that unemployment is seen as causing a “threat to stability.” However, there is an open question, is this “threat to stability,” really as bad as the New York Times presents it?