As you watch the value of your 401K shrink before your eyes today, make yourself feel a wee bit better reading Rick Perlstein, who suggests that Barack Obama, if he can manage to win the election, might have a legislative opening similar to FDR’s in 1932 and LBJ’s in 1964—crises to deal with, public support […]

. . . as Hillary supporters who don’t like the fact that 2 + 2 = 4 threaten to bolt the Democratic Party unless it declares that, for this election year only, 2 + 2 = 5.
. . . as a conservative talk-show host who learned to say “Neville Chamberlain was an appeaser” in the […]

For what it’s worth, here are the top 3 blog posts I’ve read today. Your mileage may vary; links to your own top posts are welcome in the comments.

Memo to Wal-mart: Stock Up on White Sheets: I wrote years ago that I feared for Hillary Clinton’s life in a presidential campaign—given the level of hatred […]

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Some stuff to read instead of working this morning:
Glenn Greenwald puts what Dr. Thompson called the stomp and whipsong on Mitt Romney, who missed the Vietnam War while on a Mormon mission in France, and found the French to be the same sort of weak-kneed anti-war pussies then that they’re supposed […]

I’d blog myself today, but I’ve got lots of stuff to do, and besides, these people are doing it better anyhow:
The Daily Howler takes apart Hardball’s pimping of Michelle Obama’s supposed swipe at Hillary, and how two smart liberal guests blew the chance to call bullshit on the bullshit.
The inestimable Hunter at Daily Kos speculates […]

Oh, uh… I was over at Josh Marshall’s blog and read what happened to la Alterman… getting arrested, cuffed in the throes of an ass-ignment and having CNN mischaracterize what “really happened. ” Oi bubbe!.  What disrespect for the liberal media… yikes!  On the other hand he does come on at times like a wise-ass.  So […]

I have, since I started blogging in 2003, frequently criticized religion, and especially Christianity. I don’t believe in God myself, and I think that the single biggest problem we face in the world at this moment, particularly in the United States, is the influence of religious belief on public policy. And not just fundie Christian […]

I just wrote a post advising you to read Tristero at Digby’s Hullabaloo and Glenn Greenwald at Salon about Harvey Mansfield’s latest article in the Wall Street Journal, which argues for one-man rule against the rule of law. Then it got eaten by Wordpress, and I haven’t got time to reconstruct it. So go read […]

Hey, we’re going to find out for sure this week if God exists. Actor Kirk Cameron, former star of Full House and current star of various film adaptations of the Left Behind series of novels, and his partner, evangelist Ray Comfort, say they will “prove God’s existence, absolutely, scientifically, without mentioning the Bible or faith” […]

You may know that I live in Wisconsin. There’s lots to love about living up here. Nice people, beautiful scenery, great hunting and fishing, the world’s best cheese, excellent beer, the top women’s college hockey team in the country, etc. There’s the Wisconsin Idea (Wikipedia: “which holds that the boundaries of the university should be the […]