She’s just recycling trash now. A couple years ago, Nooners had a column titled “The End of Placeness” in which she asked, “OK, quick, close your eyes. Where is Barack Obama from?” Two years later, apparently, it’s still Obama’s “otherness” that’s tripping him up.

Earl Blumenauer is Lanny Davis in a bow tie. He’s an unprincipled hack who hides behind schtick, wagging his finger in exhortations to “civility” while shamelessly betraying every promise he makes.

Mark Zandi today is the perfect Washington chameleon. He is happy to change his colors to fit in with the team that currently is paying his bills while he continues to shill for the rich.

Hot on the heels of Facebook censoring marijuana leafs in ads on the social network, and Google’s decision to accept and run nearly identical ads, a third major Internet site took a side on legalization ads.

Social news site Reddit, owned by publishing company Conde Nast, told Just Say Now that the site would not run any display advertising relating to marijuana legalization.

Alan Simpson is just the most visible of the deficit hawks who don’t have a clue about the issues they are discussing.

There’s still a kangaroo stench around the military commissions.

• Maybe we should give more money to Wall Street?
• This is not a recovery.
• Uh, and this is not helping.
• The best protest money can buy.
• She sets such a good example for the kids.
• Wingnut fight in FL.
• Run away, Faux — run away!

The conservative Republican proponents of the corporate-bigot alliance known as “the Southern Strategy” are mounting one last frenzied Battle-of-the-Bulge effort to push the Bigot Buttons one more time in order to gain what they think will be unbreakable electoral dominance. Here’s what happened in Minnesota when a local elite screwed up at button-pushing.

Hot Tuna – Uncle Sam Blues from Fillmore: The Last Days.

Pouting Baby thinks Mr. O should give Old Man Simpson a dose of castor oil and send him home.