An explosion has been reported at Moscow’s busiest airport. The death toll reports continue to grow; over a hundred are believed injured. The blast is reported to have occurred in the bagage claim area of the international terminal.

Paul Kane has a piece in Sunday’s Washington Post that seems to be the kind of take on the Senate rules reform fight you’d expect someone who hasn’t been following it at all and gets most of his information from lobbyists. He accepts the contributions of senior Senate aides that the effort led by some Democrats to change the Senate rules will fail because “party leaders want to protect the right of the Senate’s minority party to sometimes force a supermajority of 60 votes to approve legislation.” But of course, the rules changes on the table would still allow that right. This confusion may indeed sink the Merkley/Harkin/Udall effort, but it’s a willful confusion.

• A SOTU preview.
• Krugman: the competition myth.
• The return of macaca!
• Land of the free?
• He’s waiting for The Quitter to fully implode.
• The lack of self-awareness is staggering.

The Village will insure a figure is most dominant during the SOTU…and it isn’t the President.

Rolling Stones – Far Away Eyes

Sure, the teabaggers are gonna be impressed with your fiscal conservatism, saving your money while heading “home” every chance you get. But how often is your wife going to greet you gladly with that bag of laundry over your shoulder? And what happens when your man-cave’s multiple heating elements short out the electrical grid?

Rumors were rampant Friday that R.K. Arnold, the CEO of the embattled MERS, would resign. Today, MERS made the announcement. Maybe they’ll hand out the CEO position on a rotating basis the way they hand out Vice Presidencies or “certifying officer” positions to anyone who asks for one! Actually, no. Merscorp Inc., the parent company [...]

There is no doubt in my mind that the primary objective of everything that happened today at Quantico was to keep Bradley Manning from having the company of his only remaining visitor, and intimidate him from ever returning.

Israel’s self appointed inquiry, the Turkel Commission, on the Israeli attack on the Mavi Mamara has issued the first part of it’s report. When pressure for an international investigation swelled after the killings, Israel refused to cooperate with independent reviews but assured us all that Israel would conduct an inquiry into what happened. And to [...]

Most of the time, I read a news story about something in education, and I think about it for about five minutes before letting it go, chalking it up to just another new smudge on the complicated stained glass window that is public education. The other day, though, I read the article “In N.C., a new battle on school integration,” and I thought of little else during my “processing” time, with the exception of lesson modifications and other “teachery” things like that.