Not depressed in the Depression

Frederik Pohl remembers

Todd Akin: The gift that keeps on giving

Opponent fails to be ladylike.

Thanx to Ta-Nehisi Coates

Two good ideas from California

People have access to textbooks.

Schools and employers don't have access to people's social media.

Thanx to andrewducker

Harvest

Charles P. Pierce, master of the Homeric epithet, has a new one: Willard Romney is the International Harvester. It's like harvesting organs, only you get to kill the patient yourself.