A short memo to our left-liberal pals in the blogosphere: When Paul Krugman is writing that “a large part of the progressive movement seems to have lost its sanity” — and gets agreement not only from Kevin Drum, but also from Mr. Thirsty — you really need to take a reality check.  Really.

ABC News reports that embattled NY Gov-for-the-moment Elliot Spitzer got an unsolicited testimonial: A 22-year-old escort found on another call-girl Web site claimed to ABC News in a phone interview that Gov. Eliot Spitzer had been one of her customers two years ago when he was New York attorney general and that he was a nice guy who tipped well. “He didn’t do anything that wasn’t clean,” she said, adding

S. Weasel has an article up on Blues Legend Blind Lemon Paterson.  Included is a list of observations helpful in constructing the music: 1. Most blues songs begin, “Woke up this morning.” Let that be a lesson to you. In my opinion, some of his best work was done with Jelly Roll Gleckman.

Shaun Mullen and Vermont Woodchuck attribute to me passages I’ve gleaned from Greenwald in order to hold them up to mockery and scorn. But the former reproduces this asinine passage from Ezra Klein: This is sort of the boring take on Spitzer, but what we’re seeing here is not the fall—if indeed he does fall—of a high-flying governor. It’s the final tumble of a crushed reformer. Spitzer, for reasons both