Like probably more than a few of you, I’m addicted to ‘Paper’, an incredibly functional and beautiful iPad app that lets you draw or take notes or do whatever. There are a million apps like this. But these guys just managed to implement it better than anyone else – effortless functionality as well as the simplicity, lack of clutter and the lack of excessive functionality that is at the core of every great app. They also have a deal where the app synchronizes really well with a stylus called Pogo Connect. All good before this mornings betrayal …
Paul Ryan: No GOP Civil War, Boehner just got a little emotional.
Pope: I’m not a Marxist … not that there’s anything wrong with Marxists.
Are Republicans really going to refuse to pay for the spending deal they’ve agreed to — by not raising the debt limit next year?
Mayor Rob Ford, sort of still Mayor of Toronto, visits a local Afro-Canadian Church and gets on some serious dancing moves. Video after the jump …
Pope alarms Traditionalists with crackdown on hyper-traditionalist offshoot of the Franciscan order, in deeper battle over the meaning and import of Vatican II.
Skip the spin and look at the real numbers, state by state, month by month, in this interactive map of Obamacare enrollment.
Our (successful) search for the yacht behind the biggest congressional bribery scandal of the 21st century.
Remember: tomorrow is the last day to submit your nominations for the 2013 Golden Duke Awards. It’s a special year for the Dukes, our annual awards program honoring outstanding achievement in betrayals of public trust, corruption, ridiculousness and scandal of all sorts – named in honor of the ur-corrupt pol of our times, former Rep. Randy “Duke” Cunningham. Not only is this the 7th year of the Awards program but to celebrate year seven we have commissioned a true, real-life, 3 dimensional, metal-cast Golden Dukes statuette which we’ll award in person to the winner of the General Interest category (subject to their cooperation and/or being in a public area at some point when we can track them down and try to hand it to them). So get your nominations in today! (Nomination instructions and categories here.)
I didn’t want to get too ahead of ourselves. But I think it’s time to reveal this: For the first time in seven years, we have commissioned a real live metal-cast Golden Dukes statuette (it’s not technically ‘alive’ but you know what I mean). Yeah, we’ve always had the representation of the notional statuette you see in the picture above. But now it’s getting real. And I mean really real. The first edition of the statuette is currently taking shape at an artist’s workshop at an undisclosed location in the Shenandoah Valley.