This seems like a terrible policy decision, but long live bipartisanship.
The Jon Stewart/Fox News throwdown over food stamp fraud. Watch.
Another dispatch from Ukrainian emigre TPM Reader RS. Please note his own caveats about the reliability of the reports and the different actors trying to push their own narratives of events …
Just wanted to send you a quick note on events in Ukraine. I realize most of the world is concentrated on what’s going on in Crimea, some are already moving on. I just wanted to point to something else that’s going on.
Head of Catholic “Human Rights” organization believes liberal academics should be rounded up and shot.
People say lots of crazy stuff. Particularly right-wingers struggling to find analogies that might explain why their present day indignities, would-be oppressions or efforts to be understood place them in the descent of history’s inconic victims – enslaved Africans in the Americas, gassed Jews in the Holocaust, to name only the most frequent examples.
I’m trying to find something to say about this video other than “Whoa, this is crazy.” But at the moment I just can’t.
TPM Reader SR emails with a recent and perilous precedent for Scott Brown’s move to New Hampshire so he can run for U.S. Senate:
I just read Daniel Strauss’ article about why Scott Brown doesn’t have history on his side if he runs for the Senate, and I thought a more recent example of how this could play out would be helpful.
Nichole Perkins takes on one of my favorite shows today — FX’s Justified: “Legendary filmmaker Alfred Hitchcock was known for his blonde leading ladies with their “icy sexuality,” and Raylan Givens is not immune to his own version of the Hitchcock blonde.”
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I get told a lot I don’t take enough time off. So I’m taking the collective advice and going on vacation for a week. I’ll be somewhere outside the country with my family for the next week. I leave you in the able hands of our great team.