Now that’s just, well … not very helpful, Fred. Shame on you. * **** (h/t Mary Louise, who has her own thoughts) **** update: If this doesn’t stop soon, part of the right wing blogosphere is going to stroke out… THE MIDDLE! AIM FOR THE FUCKING MIDDLE! **** update 2: Really, dude. Cut your losses. You’re embarrassing yourself.* **** update 3: From Dan, in the comments: [Obama] wants to take

Quick. Somebody fetch Madeleine Albright, and tell her to bring her bestest dancin’ shoes! North Korea has positioned a Taepodong-2 missile on the launchpad at its facility in Musudan in the east of the country, U.S. officials told NBC News on Wednesday. Pyongyang has said it intends to use the missile to launch a satellite into space. The North Koreans issued an international notice that the launch may occur sometime

Good Man? From Fox News: In 2000 and 2001, while Barack Obama served as a board member for a Chicago-based charitable foundation, he helped to fund a pioneering carbon trading exchange that is likely to fill a critical role in the controversial cap-and-trade carbon reduction scheme that President Obama is now trying to push rapidly through Congress. During those two years, the Joyce Foundation gave nearly $1.1 million in two

With gusto. Quips Joy McCann on the deplorable populist scapegoating: “I think some in the administration/legislature just dug out old Nazi propaganda, crossed out ‘Jews,’ and added ‘people in the financial sector whom we dislike.’” More here.