This is Easter Sunday, a good spring day to consider a resurrection movement of the truth.

Pirates! Arrrr, they’re teh new sharks matey. Scary! And we should rightly be worried about this pirate problem, because CNN, MSNBC and the print have been relentlessly telling us so. First it was the seizure of the quasi American flagged cargo ship Maersk Alabama, and now the pesky pirates have snared an Italian tugboat too. But is the problem really that widespread? Maybe not.

Neil Cavuto has been bristling at the notion that their 24/7 teabagger coverage is in excess of what Fox would devote to any mass demonstration, like they did the Million Man March.

Fox News went on the air in October of 1996.

I’m thinking someone in Dick Armey’s Freedom Works oppo department is getting their ass kicked right about now.

Talking head lineups and more Sunday public affairs programming.

Easter Yeggs starring Bugs Bunny and Elmer Fudd.  This 1947 Warner Bros. Inc. Looney Toons cartoon was directed by Robert McKimson.  Story by Warren Foster.  Animation by Charles McKimson, Richard Bickenbach, and I. Ellis.  Layouts by Cornett Wood.  Backgrounds by Richard H. Thomas.  Voice characterizations by Mel Blanc and others.  Musical direction by Carl Stalling.

What’s on your mind tonight?

A very strange phenomenon: our friends on the right seem to quite sincerely believe that The Left is afraid, desperately so, of their Tea-Bag parties, their Alaskan Governors, and the Truth they Represent. This is, however, not strictly accurate.

It’s back! Remember the 50 billion the world’s greatest zombie-feeding station debate club wanted to give away to those nice folks who just can’t keep their nuclear waste to themselves? Remember how the nuclear pork had mutated into a part of the stimulus bill, and how the House/Senate conferees excised the whole thing in February?

Well, we got a ruling from the Election Contest Court today — and while it was a ruling, it wasn’t the one we’ve been waiting to see. Sixty-one Franken voters, represented by attorney Charles Nauen and hence collectively known as the Nauen voters, had filed suit in order to get their absentee ballots counted. Thirty-six of these voters had their ballots counted in the final vote count on Tuesday; the rest were not allowed to have their ballots counted.

In Dateline Havana, Reese Erlich takes on the central paradox of American attitudes towards Cuba, which is that almost no one in United States, on the right or the left, has a realistic appraisal of the modern Cuban state. The misperceptions and outright distortions of the right have, without doubt, had greater policy import, and are probably held by a greater number of people. However, those on the left often overlook the shortcomings of the Revolution, and the problems afflicting Cuba today. Although Mr. Erlich does not spare those on the left (he was once in solidarity with them) he appropriately reserves most of his criticisms for the right wing interpretation of the Cuban Revolution. It is this interpretation, advanced by Cuban exiles and unrepentant Cold Warriors, that has structured US policy towards the island for the last fifty years.