From the AP, “Wash. regulators ask: Can blogging be lobbying?” Blogger beware? State regulators are wondering whether online political activism amounts to lobbying, which could force Web-based activists to file public reports detailing their finances. In a collision of 21st century media and 1970s political reforms, the inquiry hints at a showdown over press freedoms for bloggers, whose self-published journals can shift between news reporting, opinion writing, political organizing and

Jules Crittenden argues that PE Obama owes a debt of gratitude to George Bush — and that Obama would be wise to recognize what good Bush has done and incorporate it into his own administration’s policies. From “A Time for Thanksgiving,” the Weekly Standard: In foreign policy, possibly embarrassed by the eagerness with which the world’s most vile regimes have welcomed his election, Obama is backing off his many promises

“The View’s” Joy Behar — who once became enraged at a guest scientist whose job it was, for one particular segment, to look for germs in the lady’s personal bathrooms and found fecal matter in Behar’s toothbrush (true story) — puts on her old public school teacher persona and talks her some sophomoric shit about “demented” home schooled children. — Which, I guess if you’re brushing your teeth with it,

“And the coloured girls go / Doo, doo, doo, doo, doo, doo, doo, doo [&tc.]”