But when it’s fun you might be having somewhere, sometime, you can bet that Dianne Feinstein is sitting up nights worrying about how to Make. You. Stop.

It turns out that the design of the new cap system that has temporarily plugged the blown out BP oil well in the Gulf was submitted (initially anonymously) by Joe Caldart, a plumber in St. Francis, Kansas.

Joe Lieberman, Lindsay Graham and John McCain pledge support for attack on Iran while the US sends $2.775 to Israel and Bibi Netanyahu’s real thinking is exposed.

The White House is frequently very late to the game and getting involved in voter outreach only after the outcome has been decided. But the White House’s email list — managed and operated by Organizing for America — includes millions of people who don’t track this so closely. And because of that, this maneuver is the worst kind of cynicism. It creates the illusion that the White House is fighting for something when the fight has concluded. Those unaware supporters will think that Obama and Axelrod made a difference somehow, but they didn’t. Why isn’t the White House stepping up when it counts, to shape debate, rather than after the fact?

On Monday it’s expected that the Washington Post will debut a series by Dana Priest on military contractors, with an emphasis on intelligence contracting. We’ve known for some time there are far more contractors than troops, that we don’t know the exact number — which makes for a lot of interesting questions.

Green Gone Wrong is the story of how our global economy — even some aspects of it that were ostensibly designed with sustainability as a priority — is undermining the ongoing environmental revolution. From the ‘beyond organic’ farms of New York’s Hudson Valley to the eco-villages of Western Europe, author Heather Rogers provides a first-hand account of the places and processes at the intersection of sustainable living and modern capitalism.

One of the founders’ great fears was that the country would be dominated by a class of those who inherited wealth. That would seem to have been the great wish of the administration from Hell, that was so full of the inheritors of others’ earnings.

In a desperate fight to hide the racism that runs rampant throughout the tea party, the National Tea Party Federation (or NAMBLA) has booted Mark Williams and the Tea Party Express for Mark’s racist blog post [Warning: link to Williams' site] that made national headlines last week.

If you listened to Slate’s Gabfest on Friday, you were treated this finger-wagging from Will Saletan.

Herodotus, the Father of History, tells us a story of a group of people willing to follow their own best interests, instead of the interests of their political and economic elites.