Inspired by Senator Blanche Lincoln (D-walmARt) who managed to get fifty colleagues to help her water down the estate tax by using the excuse of saving .02% of family farms and small businesses from the tax man, I have compiled a list of ideas for helping rich & powerful people survive the rigors of the inevitable class war that’s coming their way. Your suggestions welcome!

As a member of a family blessed with a bird-name, birding is in my blood. My grandpa was a birder, and so was Dad. I’m a more casual birder, being a city dweller. My sister-in-law is pretty serious about it, having acquired her name in marriage — converts tend to be more rigorous, right?

When accepting her Golden Globe award on Sunday, Tina Fey had a few choice words for blog commenters at The Envelope:

Sometimes it’s your friends who give you an epiphany. In this case, Rick Perlstein, who I admire greatly, with his statement that shoe-chucker Al-Zeidi should go to jail for a rather long time:

Liberals should not make light of or license the physical assault on the leader of a sovereign state, no matter how much he’s deservedly hated.

NYT announces end of war in Iraq

Here’s the kind of writing that can get your comment moderated right out of a FireDogLake comment thread: guns and suicide thoughts about a Presidential candidate and his campaign team.

How much longer do we have to withstand unacceptable, bigoted commentary from our “infotainers”?

We can’t afford to let people think for themselves, we’ll never make enough money that way!

I can’t imagine why anyone might take offense to a harmless, family-friendly little joke about an outgoing Commander-In-Chief being murdered by his own troops – those Democrats are so sensitive! Besides, it’s not like there was cussing.

Oh, joy. Sally Quinn lectures the Spitzers on adultery. Isn’t that like Hitler lecturing Churchill on war crimes? Lil’ Sally Homewrecker must think we all have short memories. She thinks wrong.