And another little piece of Carrie Prejean dies.

Maine’s Gov. John Baldacci signed a bill into law allowing same-sex marriage in his state. Maine becomes the fifth state to do so. The other four: Connecticut, Iowa, Massachusetts and Vermont. “In the past, I opposed gay marriage while supporting the idea of civil unions,” Baldacci said in a statement.

Sometimes tectonic shifts are underfoot and society fails to recognize the acts and effects. Such is the case with journalism and its daily outlets, newspapers and television. Newspapers are dying left and right, but it is not just their financial viability that is in freefall, it is their content. The new journalists, like Marcy Wheeler, are filling the void.

JoAnn Wypijewski, Robert Johnson, and Mark Brenner on EFCA, healthcare reform, the auto industry and the media coverage of the past week.

Sheila Bair is pushing back against the Rose Colored Glasses crew at Treasury and the Good Old Boys at the Fed, on the eve of the release of the stress test results. She’s not hoping and wishing, but trying to prepare folks for the bottom we haven’t reached yet.

An FDL review of lobbying reports for the first quarter of 2009 reveals that banks receiving federal bailout funds spent over $13 million lobbying against consumer interests and for the financial benefit of their executives.

The WaPo reports that OPR has recommended John Yoo and Jay Bybee be sanctioned–but not Steven Bradbury. Is that because he was still in charge of OLC when OPR allowed OLC to review the report?

• BushCo trying to rewrite history.
• No prosecutions for Yoo and Bybee?
• Another $40B for the banksters.
• Back of the line, Arlen.
• But…but…we’ve already got the best healthcare in the world.
• Orrin Hatch, liar. 
• Wingnuts are such WATBs.

Those poor historically oppressed white guys…

Albert King and Stevie Ray Vaughan – Stormy Monday, recorded at CHCH Studios in Hamilton, Ontario, Canada. December 6 1983.

… aw, but Tuesday’s just as bad.  What’s on your mind tonight?

That classic All-American teen movie Red Dawn is getting re-made and updated, 25 years after its original release. That it was the subject of an anniversary screening at AFI should have been a tip off to some sort of arouse-the-interest push, especially with these fawning comments from Debbie Schlussel, reported by TBogg:

American Cinemathique sent me word that the organization will be marking “Red Dawn’s” 25th anniversary with a special showing and discussion at the historic, restored Aero Theatre in Santa Monica…I’ve always said that “Red Dawn” and “Arlington Road” are both great movies that should be remade into timely movies with Muslims replacing Communists and neo-Nazis.