Featuring a new video from St. Vincent.

Mark Sanford worked hard to pass South Carolina’s discriminatory constitutional amendment banning recognition of relationships that aren’t between one man and one woman. So, can The State (newspaper) provide an accurate count, please, of the number of women in his marriage?

Okay, the truth is, I didn’t get to talk to Harry. But I did make what should be a very useful contact.

Civilian casualties continue in Afghanistan – is McChrystal just spinning?

He looks in the mirror at least ONCE a day.

In this morning’s Washington Post Ceci Connolly is out with a piece highlighting the tension between advocates of the public option and centrist Democratic Senators who have decided to serve as a road block for health care reform:

In an amazing display of Conventional Wisdom regurgitation about how politicians are lagging indicators in American political culture, the NYT’s Adam Nagourney uses many words, some of them big, to define why DeeCee won’t move as quickly as America to acknowledge LGBT rights.

Eighteen years ago, I had the whole God thing figured out. Drugs were involved. I didn’t just meet God on my trip. I became God, Creator of Everything. It was fun for a while, and then it wasn’t, it was a bummer. I thought, what happens if I–not I, John Horgan, but I, God—die? I’ll take the whole cosmos with me! Holy shit!

This New York Times article, Little Hope For GOP to Support Health Bill, illustrates the problem with bipartisanship and getting Republican votes. It’s like people haven’t paid attention to the GOP votes against the stimulus bill, against the ACES bill, and against the S-CHIP bill. Why would they vote for the health bill out of the Senate Finance Committee after showing such a consistent pattern of votes against President Obama’s agenda?

Whip count. What some of the NY State blogs have to say about the public option in healthcare reform.