Undisclosed squamousity

Mick says Jim Hightower’s found proof that top investment banks deliberately screwed with mortgage applications.

Surprise, surprise.

Mick also has more on Postville. And yes, that would be the same ICE that lost a nine-year-old boy recently. I’m sure he’ll turn up, much the worse for wear.

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Taylor Branch earns Literary Peace Prize for his Martin Luther King Jr. bio.

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Barack Obama’s staff is on the verge of vindicating its belief that the eloquent black freshman senator from Illinois was a unique candidate who could win the Democratic nomination in one of the biggest upsets in presidential politics.

The band of Obama loyalists who imagined that could happen have stunned even themselves with their success against Hillary Rodham Clinton, who appeared to have wrapped up the nomination last year, before any votes were cast.

Nedra [fucking] Pickler

Inevitability is a steep street on which to drive a campaign. And, if you lose traction, the slide to the bottom is pretty breathtaking.

Not the person her supporters thought she was, and she never accomplished anything of note. Hillary Clinton was, if anything, more strategically incompetent than John Kerry or Al Gore.

That’s saying something.

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David Kurtz says there have been no formal talks between the Obamaites and Clintonettes, while Al Giordano looks at superdelegate flipping (yes, it’s happening, just not the way Hillary had hoped).

City Pages has more on Franken in Playboy (virtual pants dropping only), and FDL says a Democratic Congresswoman’s home has just gone into foreclosure.

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McCain’s health. Something did turn up after all. He had cancer surgery back in February, but never told anyone. Early stage squamous cell carcinoma. Oh yeah — that sounds pretty benign, and less painful than McCain’s recent reverendectomy.

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When one-half of one-percent is just too goddamned much. If you pay soldiers more, they’ll just save it instead of making George’s buddies in the instant payday loan biz rich.

Greediest bastards to ever run our Treasury into the root cellar.

See also Would You Like Lies With That?

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Note: I don’t use a laptop to blog.

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Best inside joke ‘net video ever, from Weezer. Even your grandmother will recognize some of these mini-tributes.

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Sometimes I think Ed gets kinda lonely out there on the road week after week…but at least he’s steered clear of Hello Kitty!

 

 

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