ESPN now says it regrets that weird segment yesterday on whether Michael Sam’s teammates are showering with him.

Bill Kristol happily embracing the stereotype of the armchair bomber pilot without a clue.

Fashion faux pas of the first degree.

Mitch McConnell doesn’t want voters thinking he’s planning to resume government shutdown brinkmanship if Republicans win the Senate. Shutdown is a loaded and unpopular word. So he’s putting it in legis-speak to give himself some deniability. But that’s exactly what he’s promising to do if becomes Senate majority leader. He told as much to Politico on his campaign bus a few days ago, and he’s been caught saying it privately a couple of months ago to a group of high-dollar GOP donors on an audio recording published today by The Nation. This kind of cynical gambit relies on the lack of sophistication of voters and a compliant press corps. Probably not a bad gamble.

You have to check out these great pics of pre-revolution American cars which, because of the U.S. embargo, still show up all over Cuba.

McDonnell confessed last week that he’s living with a priest during the corruption trial against him. But it’s now been revealed that that priest was arrested for a sex crime in 2002 — one that McDonnell himself advocated for keeping on the books as a state delegate.

Pew finds relatively few self-identified libertarians — and discovers their views are actually not as different from everyone else’s as they like to think.

NYT reporter who wrote the Michael Brown is “no angel” profile explains what he was trying to convey.

I am going on vacation. I will see you in September. I leave you with these good TPM people.

Some fascinating historical insights on what prompted the British to burn Washington 200 years ago this week.