The Washington primary can serve as a useful predictor on a macro level. Partisan swings in the Washington primary vote closely mirrored the national Congressional swings we saw in November.

Here’s what I’m looking at as Congress returns for the last of the lame duck session today. . . .

• It’s the biggest most damaging leak evah!
• A “modest” Black Friday.
• Victory is just around the corner.
• Worst. Headline. Ever.
• Krugman: the difference between Spain and the US.
• The theology of tax cuts.

Wikileaks documents released world doesn’t end…again

Angelique Kidjo – Gimme Shelter, and, Decemberists – Here I Dreamt I Was An Architect

Despite five terms in the Senate, this is how historians will likely memorialize McCain: the last great civil-rights filibusterer, in the sorry, backwards tradition of Strom Thurmond and Richard Russell.

To be sure, it’s ugly and cynical to say we need to emphasize science education lest Our Military Strength Be Imperiled, but what else works in American education discourse?

Glenn Greenwald summarizes the missing media narrative in his Salon article this morning entitled “The FBI successfully thwarts its own Terrorist plot.” I recommend reading it all (ad click-through required). He brings motive to the fore: like almost every ‘terror’ suspect groomed by the FBI and then apprehended in America, 19-year-old Somali-American, Mohamed Osman Mohamud talked about retaliation for the United States bringing war to Muslims and his awful

With this chaotic atmosphere over the financial sector, Sunday in the EU had the trappings of a farce from the silent movie era. About all that is lacking is the old fashion seltzer bottles. Is this installment of the Keystone Kops going to be sufficiently entertaining that the bond markets will sit back, relax and let Portugal off the hook for the time being? Somehow I wouldn’t count on it. Stay tuned.

Real terrorism, real arson, real hate: will the FBI be called in to investigate the real terror, or do they just do Terror Theater now?