Featuring music of Nina Simone and Chelsea Wolfe.

Maureen Dowd went to the eye doctor this week, shopped for makeup, and chatted with her MSNBC buddies about making HDTV promotional adverts. Norah O’Donnell had baby-spitup on her dress that no one but the HDTV camera could see.

And David Shuster took off his pants.

After a few Cheeto-eating people in the basement working in their underwear who write blogs voiced objections to Brennan…

Democracy is not a spectator sport – time to tell progressives in the House to say No to the War Supplemental.

Eric Holder is revealing the results of his review of state secrets in piecemeal fashion, case filing by case filing.

It’s going to be a very close vote.”

On Friday,  Murtha told Ryan Grim “We’ll pass it, but it’ll be a close vote.”

Backpeddling?

Leon Panetta’s latest filing in the ACLU FOIA lawsuit had this curious revelation:

Officials of the National Security Council (NSC) determined it… essential to limit access to the information in the program. NSC officials established a special access program governing access to information relating to the CIA terrorist detention and interrogation program….

You can still take action on the weekend by writing letters to your local papers.

Columbine is the most important and impactful reading of this massacre that I have read to date. Written by Dave Cullen, it provides the reader with an opportunity to attempt to get inside the minds of Eric Harris and Dylan Klebold. Additionally, we get a profile of teenage killers that goes to the heart of psychopathology. We learn of their interactions with one another, their peers, their teachers, and their parents. There were many themes and emerging themes that stood out for me. I think of Mr. D (Frank De Angelis) and how there are many dedicated and compassionate teachers like him, and how they really care about the overall well-being of their students. Even in the midst of chaos, this is comfort in faith. Therefore, the chapters ‘Rush to Closure’, ‘Gifted Boy’, ‘Hour of Need’, had me asking the question, Do We ever Forgive, or can we?

Hardball invited a Republican strategist and Democratic strategist to offer advice on health care reform strategies. The Republican repeated Luntz talking points; the Democrat recommended we give the Republicans what they want. This is how we lose.