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In case you don’t follow Louisiana politics (and why don’t you? it’s hilarious): Republican David Vitter — prostitute patron, hypocrite, and general‐purpose jackass — is up for reelection in 2010. He’ll face a legitimate challenge from the Dems, but a grassroots movement to give Vitter a GOP primary challenge is getting pretty hot and heavy. Award‐winning adult film actress Stormy Daniels is considering a run; she kicked off a “listening tour” today in her native Baton Rouge. I hope she will do the right thing for the state of Louisiana and for my general amusement.

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It’s so bizarre that we were convicted at all and it’s even more bizarre that we were [convicted] as a team. The court said we were organised. I can’t get Gottfrid out of bed in the morning. If you’re going to convict us, convict us of disorganised crime.

Peter Sunde (of The Pirate Bay)
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This is the scoring the House Republicans have provided, tracking Democratic budget policy and theirs over the next 70 years. As you can see, predicting ideological stances over as yet unborn Democratic members of Congress, the GOP scoring appears to have us on track for the government owning about 90% of the economy in the early‐mid‐22nd century, which if I remember is about the time period of the invention of the warp drive. So I don’t know if they’ve figured that in too.

Josh Marshall
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The Republican proposal, as you might expect, doesn’t actually have a health care plan. But it does have this: “Republicans will be on the side of quality versus mediocrity, affordability versus unsustainable debt, and freedom of care versus bureaucrats in control. And we will be on the side of patients, doctors, and the American people.” They are also in favor of good things rather than bad things, moving forward rather than going backwards, the hobbits rather than the orcs, and always twirling, twirling, twirling towards freedom.

Ezra Klein
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I’ve been saying this for a while now, but something people need to understand about the current state of American politics is that Rep. Mike Pence (R‐IN) is not a smart man. He lacks intelligence.

Matthew Yglesias
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Dean Edwards explains how the standard “callback” pattern in JavaScript is too brittle for something like a “DOM ready” event. Prototype appears to be the one major library that handles this “correctly.” WIN!

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Tough Love

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Jason Scott rips into Joe Clark. I have learned a number of things from Joe Clark, and I still find reason to link someone to i let u b u at least once per quarter. But I can’t find much fault with this assessment of his words and his worldview.…

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