Innundated with errands this morning but this is all news that will keep:
Franken:
NRSC again uses footage of “Angry Al” taken from a clip of a Paul Wellstone cross country race story Franken told on the trail (isn’t it about time the DSCC started airing ads of wingnuts masturbating furiously to YouTubes?)
Milbank gets snarky, reminds me of how much I dislike his “humor”
Sarah Palin:
Bill Kristol (very very lame)
Alaskans not sorry at all about “using law to hold her accountable”
Palin to Fox? (I predict people will tire of her very quickly if given a daily dose)
Technology:
Microsoft discovers UNFIXABLE HOLE in WINDOWS XP and if you don’t upgrade to Windows 7 YOU ARE ALL GOING TO DIE DIE DIE!!!!!
War and rumors of war:
Dr. David Kelly’s suicide in doubt as reporters uncover exposé Kelly was working on (was Kelly Wellstoned without a plane?)
Zelaya to meet with Clinton today
Giordano on coup leaders’ preconditions
Sotomayor:
Sotomayor gets top ABA rating (being qualified has its perks)
Randall Terry to do 12-city wankathon about Sotomayor (if you can’t win, make sure you make your base as ANGRY AS FUCKING POSSIBLE in the hopes of spurring another Scott Roeder to take “lone wolf” action)
Etc.:
Senate Finance Committee tries to backdoor in an abortion funding ban
Jammie Thomas Rasset soldiers on while villains like me keep on downloadin’
Bob Herbert on McNamara
Cornyn, Rick Perry booed at Teabaggers’ party
Train gets blown off tracks by tornado (video from Minnesota Observer)
Gaffney SC spree killer killed
Limbaugh more and more about calling for Obama’s violent overthrow
Even Pope Natzinger thinks business is out of control and becoming a force for evil in the world
CFTC to begin publicizing data on oil company transactions with eye towards stifling speculation
LAPD detective kills herself in a Santa Clarita sheriff’s station
Vanity Fair on AIG and the big shitpile
Known by the company you keep
AZ state senator proudly says earth is 6,000 years old
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New book dredges up Kennedy gossip from over 40 years ago (all parties now being dead except those who would be hurt by this revelation).
When I was driving Ethel Kennedy and various members of her family around Iowa in 1980, she accidentally left a picture of Bobby on the nightstand next to her hotel bed in Sioux City, and didn’t realize it until she unpacked in Des Moines. Dan Martin, the advance man, drove back to Sioux City to get it.
She told him she’d slept with that picture next to her every night since RFK was assassinated.
I think this story could have waited a few years more to come out.
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Turley’s upset that Ryanair is introducing bar stool seating on flights to increase the number of passengers.
? On a short flight this sounds very sensible. The biggest problem with airlines is they cost too much and consume too much fuel. I’d much rather stand for two hours than be shoehorned into those medievally sized economy seats.
Seriously. People die from blood clots sitting in those seats. A bar stool would be a lifesaver for the vertically unchallenged among us.
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Glenn Greenwald says Froomkin’s landed at the HuffPost.
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Drake Levin, R.I.P.
Yes, Paul Revere and the Raiders were American Bandstand’s house band, and yes, their music was a bit corny. But it was also some of the better American pop of their day, and considerably less embarrassing than much of the bilge that’s gone gold since then.
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