Rich is excellent as always today, but I think he misses the mark here.

She could well be their last presidential candidate standing. Such would-be competitors as Mark Sanford, John Ensign and Newt Gingrich are too carnally compromised for the un-Clinton party. Mike Huckabee is Palin-lite. Tim Pawlenty, Bobby Jindal — really?

France isn’t like the US. Vive la differénce!

Contemporary science has put the lie to notions of the isolated, atom-like individual, revealed the deep interdependent nature of human life, and shown the importance of empathy in learning, social organization and human survivability. We might call the new scientific paradigm, “I need you.”

Truer words, from by Snoop Dogg at the end of the movie Bruno, have never been sung….

That Bruno, the character played by Sasha Baron Cohen in the eponymous, sure-to-be-a-hit movie, is gay is just one aspect to his personality, though one which as we learn cannot be denied. More than anything else, Bruno wants to be a star, and will go to any lengths to do so, even denying homosexuality in a quest to be famous. In the end, his desire for love overcomes his desire for stardom. Yet by abandoning himself to love, he does in fact find the fame he so desires.

Bruno the movie is about the search for self when the self is defined by public response

There should be a rule that George Will not be allowed to speak unless Paul Krugman can clean up the disinformation. But Krugman wasn’t on This Week, leaving Will free to misinform ABC’s audience.

The standard line of defense used by persons sticking up for the Blue Dogs is that they’re not corrupt or money-driven or anything like that, but are simply voting the way their constituents want them to vote. Let’s put this to the test by looking at their stance on the public option.

One would think that smirky plagiarist Ben Domenech, who hung his friends out to dry, would at the very least be the cut and fuckin’ paste master, but it appears, not so much. Writing for the apparently standardless The New Ledger who hired him as Editor in Chief (no, really, I am not kidding)

Against the backdrop of a Holder/Rahm drama, Newsweek reveals key details about the internal conflict over torture.

Supreme Court nominee Sonia Sotomayor’s confirmation hearings, health care, the economy.

The Unbearable Bear.  This Warner Brothers Inc. Merrie Melodies cartoon was directed by Charles M. Jones and debuted April 17, 1943.  Produced by Leon Schlesinger.  Music directed by Carl Stalling.  Orchestration by Milt Franklyn.  Film editing and sound effects editing by Treg Brown.  Animation by Robert Cannon, Ken Harris, John McGrew, and Ben Washam.  Voices by Mel Blanc and Sara Berner.  

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