Do you realize that Chelsea Clinton will be 36 years old in 2016, clearing a certain Constitutional requirement? Just saying.

• The most important column you’ll read today.
• The difference between Bhutto and Bush as metaphor.
• Bullshit as hagiography.
• Nut-squeezers coerce nut-squeezees to hire Irving Kristol’s son to “balance” leftist propagandist Paul Krugman on NYT op-ed page. O, outrage! Take a second to scratch all your favorite sores.
• I pledge not to breath air if elected president.
• Vomit/Excrement 08!
• Hedging bets.
• Busted for mushrooms at a Grateful Dead cover-band concert?
• Post political reporter evokes The Magic Negro!
• Toolio says the world is…. dangerous!
• 08 is not 68?
• At bottom, a link to Scouser Alphabet.
• Swerve on swerve.
• Yes, and?
• Year in Sport.
• It’s hard to claim one’s party isn’t a corrupt enterprise when it names a nineteen year old boy to guide it through civil war.
• McCain losing votes to Obama?
• Lots more links.

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