Rep. Ed Markey (D-MA), Chairman of the House Select Committee on Energy Independence and Global Warming led the grandstanding at a hearing convened for the purpose of bashing “Big Oil” and executives from the five biggest US oil companies: On April Fools’ Day, the biggest joke of all is being played on American families by Big Oil… Even before the hearing, Markey complained: These companies are defending billions in federal subsidies

The Negromancer has made us rich!!!  By fiat!!! h/t Rob Crawford Related: Chris Matthews wonders whether the guy he’s been fellating is a little . . . you know . . . swishy. In the ‘hood?

Dr. Helen, in an interesting post about why she’s ditching her purse, asks the following (not rhetorical) question: And are there any other man-traits that might make women’s lives easier? Help me out, guys! Um, okay, Helen.  Be careful what you wish for, though.

I just finished reading the first few chapters of Great American Hypocrites, and I am stupefied to report, I’m impressed.

Moron Pundit about to take bad fall, injure face. The Bears will be better than the Packers when penguins fly. The Opacity of Dope OMG! Was it a female picnic table?

Headline of the day: F1 boss Max Mosley has sick Nazi orgy with 5 hookers I know Laura Ingraham’s going to be mad at me.  Oh, well. Gleen(s)'(s) autobiographies available.  Ellerson reviews it at Salon. Related: Mary Mapes bashes Chuck Philips’s sourcing

Alice Walker: Obama is the hide America has tried to change h/t Glenn Reynolds and Our Very Own Darleen Click! Money quote: She carries all the history of white womanhood in the US in her person; it would be a miracle if we, and the world, did not react to this fact. How dishonest it is, to try to make her innocent of her racial inheritance. No wonder her ass

Scientists say that one third of us think that the others are out to get us h/t Hot Air Full disclosure: I am out to get a third of us