Plan

The Republicans hope that if they bugger up the economic recovery, the voters will blame the "party in power": the Democrats. It may work.

Thanx to womzilla

Dave Wiegel's "resignation"

Whiny ass titty babies.
The problem with covering conservatives is: There's no way to do it without being offensive -- at least in the bar after work, or its email equivalent. Which is apparently a resignation-accepting offense at the Post.

They've run this country for most of the past thirty years. I don't see why we should continue to treat wingnuts like special needs children who have to be shielded from criticism.

Roy Edroso

Thanx to The Sideshow.

Creative Commons: Threat or Menace?

Danger!!! Some creators don't want to be assholes about what they create.

Thanx to Oliver Willis

Pendulum

We're finally getting the backswing, from Philip Larkin the Poetry Monument to Philip Larkin the Racist Sexist Pig (who unfortunately wrote some stuff good enough that we have to read it) to Philip Larkin the Great Poet and Flawed Human Being. Here's an article on the upcoming 25th anniversary of his death, featuring a topic many would have thought was the empty set, if not an actual contradiction in terms: the women Larkin loved.

Thanx to oursin

People I'm glad to know about

Mark Dean, the African American who has a third of the patents on the machine the personal computer came from.

Thanx to