My stars! Well, I never!

Democratic Senate candidate Al Franken’s personal corporation didn’t file corporate income tax returns in California from 2003 to 2007.  He now owes more than $4,000 in back taxes, penalties and fees.  Franken campaign spokeswoman Jess McIntosh said if Franken’s business owes the money it will pay up, which is nice, given that it is illegal to not file or pay corporate taxes.  The AP adds: AFI was in the headlines

Here’s a great vid of the Beatles doing a Shakespeare sketch on the Beeb, circa 1964.  It’s quite an arresting snapshot of a moment in time, both culturally and for the boys themselves.  I wonder if ol’ Will spun in his grave when one of his characters became a major part of the Wham-O Company.

Mac vs. PC

Jules Crittenden nails it in noting “the unlikelihood that any effort to present a serious book entitled Great American Hypocrites, entirely limited to one side of the aisle, could be anything but an exercise in hypocrisy.”  But Jonah Goldberg overstates it in suggesting that the Internet’s most infamous sock-puppeteer is “one of the most easily and profitably ignored voices in the blogosphere.”  Ellensburg’s raging paranoia makes him a useful case study of how Bush Derangement Syndrome eventually metastasizes

Unfortunately, senility seems no impediment to serving in Congress. Democratic Rep. John Murtha said Wednesday that Republican Sen. John McCain is too old to be president. Murtha is 75, four years older than McCain. He says they are nearly the same age, and the rigors and stress of running the country is too much for guys their age. “I’ve served with seven presidents,” Murtha told a union audience. “When they

a poor little female blogger was born In teh ghetto . . .

UC Berkeley’s Jerome Karabel makes a none-too-subtle generational pitch that superdelegates should back Barack Obama over Hillary Clinton (via the L.A. Times): In Obama, the Democratic Party has a potential nominee who offers a unique opportunity to bring the younger generation firmly into the political process, to make many of its members lifelong Democrats and perhaps to lay the groundwork for a historic realignment on the scale of Roosevelt and Reagan. Yet with Democratic

Somebody named Pink Ed has a piece at the Village Voice (h/t Serr8d) on the right-blogosphere’s coverage of the election.  It’s wry, amusing, and demonstrates perfectly the left’s contention that if you disagree with them, you’re either stupid or evil, or some combination of both.  (The inverse relationship btween the two is also telling, and I may comment further on that, later). Insty gets the lowest stupid-to-evil ratio, at 5/95. 

The screen fills with grainy footage of sprawling 1970s gas lines. “Nothing’s changed,” Sen. Barack Obama says into the camera, “except now Exxon’s making $40 billion a year, and we’re paying $3.50 for gas. … I don’t take money from oil companies or Washington lobbyists, and I won’t let them block change anymore.” Obama’s ad, which has been airing in Pennsylvania as the April 22 primary approaches, is technically true