Brazil got the Olympics, in part due to the assbiting Republicans letting the Olympics folks know that they’d turn the Games into a political football.

Kos:

I hear wingnuts are agitating against America hosting the next Super Bowl.

Even before the late Friday news dumps, lots going on.

Healthcare:

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Healthcare Friday

Public Option not dead yet

Frist says he’d vote for Dem plan

Economy:

Taibbi, Goldman Sachs cont.

Terrance Heath on Capitalism: A Love Story (more)

Hershey kisses

Sarbanes-Oxley to be enforced only eight years after passage

Media:

Chris Matthews’ early onset Alzheimers

Calling agitprop for what it is

Returning serve (more) (video)

CIM alum hired by Strib

BMTN, taking some shots (not what I thought they were going to be, and apparently radio will play a bigger role in the near future [scroll to bottom on the right])

ProPublica dinged for CEO overcompensation

Idiots:

Boehner outs self as clueless

The sound of someone else’s hands typing

Jimbo DeMint

Darth Goldberg

Infamy:

5% tops

The secret world of deaf prisoners

John Ensign (more)

Private cops run by public felons (more)

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GWill’s 7th global warming denialist column of the year (new data)

Smear of the week club

McChrystal

Fouad al-Rabiah (to date 30 out of 38 Gitmo cases reviewed has led to court ordered releases)

MN:

Pawlenty going Rove (more)

Bachmann opponent #1 & #2

MPR gets a piece of the pie

Etc.:

Parapsychology reexamined

ACORN still fighting back

Iran: More accomplished in one day of negotiations than in 8 years of threats (details)

Heavy competition for pot reviewer job

Shocker: 85-year-old, gun-toting crank does not get tasered

Anne Frank video

R.I.P. rips:

Rick Perry’s end-around on the truth (more) (still more)

Bromwich on Safire

Circular firing squad in NY23

Samuel Johnson on wingnuts