Thomas Frank is hardly your average Wall Street Journal opinionator, so take his WSJ op-ed, Obama Right About Fox News, with a grain of salt.

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Minneapolis keeps making lists lately. Luckily, they didn’t make into The Daily Beast’s 10 Worst Dropout Cities list, but Gov. BridgeFail still has another year to work his magic.

Click here for the story that goes with those pix.

Good Beast today. Check out:

NFL and brain damage, paralysis and testicle amputation

Levi to do Playgirl shoot same day as Sarah’s Oprah interview

Matt Latimer on Rushbo (limp criticism from an apologist, but you go with what you got)

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Evan Bayh’s healthcare reform vote has been prepaid for but Iowa Republicans are having trouble scraping together the coin necessary to bring Sarah Palin to the Hawkeye state.

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Even Dick Cheney wants nothing to do with Gov. Rick “raped and murdered an innocent man in 2004″ Perry.

The former Vice President just endorsed Kay Bailey Hutchinson for guv.

I should note that this has nothing to do with former South Carolina state assistant Attorney General Roland Corning getting caught in a graveyard with a stripper on Monday night. At least not that I know of.

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Anti-Semitism is at an all-time low in the U.S. thanks to Zionists and end times evangelicals embracing.

Check back later to see how that works out for everyone. Personally, I suspect there’ll come a day when the evangelicals tire of waiting and try to set Jerusalem on fire to see if they can hasten the end times.

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Too often we read the stories about the people we think of as saints, then wonder why their kids turn out like they do.

Other times the kids think of their parents as saints as well, and that grieving process can be more complicated.

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Column writing is hard work, but it does have its perks.

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Balloon Juice says that the Moonies have sunk over $1.7 billion into the Washington Times, but circ is now under 70,000.

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Et¢.:

Too big to fail

Trumka to fight bankster bill [more on our wholly owned brothel Congress]

Digby: TARP on Steroids

Limbaugh acts out

Iraq, as seen by David Ignatius

Howzabout letting both Wall Street and the workers see the same books?

Banksters in Chicago, cont.

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World Serious tonight, and the Yankees will have my undivided attention.

Hopefully that will help.