A round up of the news from yesterday that you might have missed!

Rick Perry, yet another Texas politician Josh Brolin will end up playing in the movie.

Robert Plant – Ship of Fools and Blind Faith – Can’t Find My Way Home

I am pleased that Michele Bachmann isn’t going to judge gay people. Presumably she’s also not going to execute them, but let’s get her to rule that out on camera, just to be safe.

Adam at St Louis Activist Blog confronts angry fail whale Andrew Breitbart as he tries to slip out the side door of some mini-conference that thought it would be a good idea to pay Andrew to talk to them about making shit up and making it pay.

Rep. Fred Upton says the Catfood Commission II has already gotten to work. I don’t know if that simply means that the members have already started raising money off the fact that they’re members of the Catfood Commission II or what. But apparently there’s been a little activity.

His “friends” call him a loser, his pot dealer has been selling him oregano from the onset, and everyone hates his music. Worried that their oldest son will never amount to a hill of beans (the name of Moramarco’s band that actually had a top ten college radio hit in 1990), his parents stage an intervention. They want him to be happy by their standards, to have a functional relationship and to have a steady income.

That’s the premise of The Great Intervention, actor/musician/director Steve Moramarco’s low-budget, super-indie, semi-fictional film made for $5,000 and funded through Kickstarter (full disclosure–I donated $23 to the cause). The film begins with the arrival of a camera crew hired by his mom from Craigslist to document how out of control Moramarco’s lifestyle really is and how his choices have destroyed him.

The shutting down of services has sparked a legal debate that is definitely worth having. An action like this had never been taken by a government agency. On one hand, organizations like the Electronic Frontier Foundation (EFF) contend it violated citizens’ First Amendment rights. EFF Austin (not affiliated with EFF) thinks BART likely violated section 333 of the Communications Act posted a statement showing. (Users have been using Twitter to urge people to file complaints with the FCC.)

On the other hand, there are those who do not think this could be challenged in court. The ACLU condemned BART’s move but a staff attorney with the ACLU now tells Wired that there could be times when a government agency would be justified in shutting down mobile services.

The Wisconsin recall elections actually aren’t over. Because of the timing of some challenges to petition filings, all of the recalls did not happen on the same day. Instead the elections against Republican state Senators were split from the elections against Democratic state Senators.

The somewhat good news here is that the seamless coverage regulations proposed by the Department of Health and Human Services have been widely praised. They are designed to do all those calculations backstage, so that the consumer need only to visit one portal to figure out which program they slot into. And it sets up a process for annual eligibility review, so individuals are not responsible for flagging their increase in income. Individuals who end up making too much for Medicaid will get to keep their coverage until they get a new plan on the exchange.

The somewhat bad news is that because of the new rules, the tax credits just got less affordable.