A lot of Tucson coverage again this week, CNN’s State of the Union has a full hour on mental illness, particularly schizophrenia. Tune into Virtually Speaking for progressive talk with Stewart Zechamn and Jay Akroyd.

This afternoon’s Book Salon is Prophets of War: Lockheed Martin and the Making of the Military-Industrial Complex, you don’t want to miss this one. And for Movie Night Monday, Lisa Derrick’s invited the daughters of William Kuntzler in to discuss their documentary about him.

Wiley vs Rhodes, an Apache Pictures presentation featuring a live action short film based upon the characters created by Chuck Jones; or Zip N Snort, a Warner Bros. cartoon in the Merrie Melodies series featuring Wile E. Coyote and Road Runner, released on January 21, 1961?

The President of the United States may be dyeing his hair, which is wicked and conniving and wicked, for obvious reasons, these reasons being, well because. Anyone who dyes their hair is worse than Hitler, who didn’t dye his hair, but murdered millions of innocents. The logic is clear.

This seems to be the precipice we’re now approaching: when the Oligarchy is about to reach one step too far in dismantling any semblance of safety for average Americans.

More proof we probably need the Log Cabin Republicans to continue their suit against the military’s Don’t-Ask-Don’t-Tell policy, despite the showy ‘repeal’ signing ceremony at the White House month: Congressman Duncan Hunter (the son) will introduce legislation to cripple the repeal.

The DOD website features an article about a speech by Jeh Johnson, DOD General Counsel, that seems to say King would approved of the wars in Iraq, Afghanistan, and Pakistan, in part because the world is a more complicated place these days.

Sorry, but theologically speaking, that’s crap. As King’s “A Time to Break Silence” speech lays out in detail, there’s no asterisk to King’s commitment to non-violence and his disdain for war.

For the DOD to suggest otherwise is offensive as hell.

So you have this crazy circumstance where the payroll tax cut ends up a worse deal for low-income workers, who would spend the money, and a better deal for high-income workers, who probably won’t.

Tom Tomorrow is a master of the nutshell who has found an inexhaustible supply of nuts. Every week, he crystallizes deadly accurate criticism of Republican insanity and Democratic insincerity into just a handful or two of pithy cartoon panels, and yet never seems to leave anything out. As anyone who has ever written or blogged can attest, this is a very rare and valuable skill, and I think I can safely say that we all hate him for it.

One of the first stories to replace the killings in Tucson and the national response as the lead story in the New York Times has been upheaval in Tunisia, a country I suspect most Americans could find only with assistance from Google Maps. But there’s a painful connection to the common topic of how societies struggle to bring change against what they consider unjust, repressive regimes.

The violence in Mexico–directly a result of the huge profits that can be made thanks to the US prohibitions against drugs–reached new heights last year.