Kos.

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Oh my:
Noah Shachtman at Danger Room finds a 2006 report written for U.S. Special Operations Command that suggests ways the military should deal with the blogosphere. One suggestion is for the military to hire bloggers to “pass the U.S. message“:
Information strategists can consider clandestinely recruiting or hiring prominent bloggers or other persons of prominence…to pass […]

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A Nation Institute Investigative Fund piece on how the Republicans screwed Democratic primaries in Michigan and Florida.

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Paul Krugman on “This Week”:

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Now what does this remind me of? I know it’ll come to me…

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Whenever I’m in D.C. I’m always somewhat taken aback by the sheer number of eager, smarmy little twits in blazers who infest that city’s streets, eating establishments and Metro system. I always make the assumption, likely often wrong, that they’re specimens of the sort of young professional Republican who spends the early part of their […]

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I keep telling people but nobody listens:
Mobile phones could kill far more people than smoking or asbestos, a study by an award-winning cancer expert has concluded. He says people should avoid using them wherever possible and that governments and the mobile phone industry must take “immediate steps” to reduce exposure to their radiation.
The study, by […]

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So, so sad:
PORT CHARLOTTE, Fla. — A week after Eric W. Hall disappeared into the woods of Southwest Florida, his mother stood in a parking lot overlooking the Gulf of Mexico. She had asked for volunteers. Would they come?
Becky Hall’s son had experienced a flashback, fleeing a relative’s home after sensing that Iraqi insurgents had […]

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Julia with a wonderfully insightful piece on the way the media (in the person of Ron Fournier) works the election.

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Robert Reich on exactly who gets rewarded for risky behavior:
Indeed, the history of modern American business is littered with federal bailouts, loan guarantees, and no-questions-asked reorganizations. Some are well known, such as the Chrylser bailout of 1979, the savings and loan bailout of 1989, and the airline bailout of 2001. Most occur in the relative […]

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Just another benefit of extended Republican rule:
Driven by a painful mix of layoffs and rising food and fuel prices, the number of Americans receiving food stamps is projected to reach 28 million in the coming year, the highest level since the aid program began in the 1960s.
The number of recipients, who must have near-poverty incomes […]

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Tristero on the latest from Iraq:
Think about that. Four thousand plus American lives have been sacrificed, countless Iraqis have also died, at a financial cost in the multiple trillions and the upshot is not democracy but the spread of radical Shiite Islamism. There aren’t words in the English language ominous enough to describe how profound […]

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I forgot to mention that my Very Good Friend Paul Krugman® reads Making Light, and was thrilled to be sitting across from Teresa Neilsen-Hayden (who, like me, is a narcoleptic) at dinner.
I also needled Paul Krugman®, “You’re one of those people who ordered a Kindle, aren’t you?”
And yes, he did. “But I didn’t get it […]

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Looks like the big money’s drying up:
Building up his fund-raising apparatus is essential at this point for Mr. McCain, who struggled for much of last year to raise money. To prevail in the general election, he will need to raise substantial amounts of cash to cut into the vast fund-raising edge the Democratic presidential candidates […]

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Via Tom Watson:
Mr. Watson - I’ve read your work on SSG. Hollinsworth and greatly appreciate it. Hollinsworth was a personal friend of mine that I served my first tour in Iraq with and lived with him in Germany. Its sad to see these politicians bicker over human lives. Our service members have lost hope in […]

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Another one bites the dust:
Jackson is expected to announce his resignation Monday, according to people familiar with the matter, a decision that will deal a blow to the Bush administration’s efforts to tackle the housing crisis.
The exact reasons for Mr. Jackson’s decision couldn’t be learned. Earlier this month, two Democratic senators, Patty Murray of Washington […]

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Seems like the logical solution will be for tech-savvy types to volunteer their services (and also for cable companies to provide low-rate basic service for retirement and nursing homes):
Page said his TV is often all that breaks the solitude of his days at Friendship Terrace Apartments, a retirement community in Northwest Washington.
“For people who are […]

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At Opening Day.

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Well, look at that. Successful direct talks with one of our enemies!

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Yep, this would pretty much be checkmate. I mean, she’d be terrible, but I bet she could win.

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Dith Pran, 65.

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Wouldn’t it be pretty to think so.
Here’s Al tonight on 60 Minutes.

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I suppose the rest of the blogosphere will now start calling for Barack Obama to drop out of the race.
Yeah, like that’ll happen.

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Something else to feel guilty about - Google:
It is no coincidence that search engine giant Google is building its newest computer center near the Dalles Dam, a huge hydroelectric power plant in Oregon. Buying electricity directly from the plant costs one-fifth as much as Google would be paying in California. Besides, the Columbia River supplies […]

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Why is Andrea Mitchell allowed to cover economic issues, anyway? I mean, considering that she’s married to the man whose policies nurtured the whole damn mess…

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