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Troops needed in Afghanistan end up in Iraq, Obama punts on the FISA bill, and finally: the Supremes rule on the 2nd amendment.
Links Mentioned: The hunt for Bin Laden … the new Army Iraq report … the FISA bill … the Prof references Chinua Achebe and The Lives of Others … the Genarlow [...]

Dan Savage elucidates something I’ve been thinking for a while. Noting the new attack ad on Al Franken that accuses him of being a latte-sipping elitist, Dan writes:
Do Republican politicians and campaign consultants ever actually go to the heartland they never shut up about? I travel a fair bit and there are Starbucks literally [...]

Hillary Clinton returns to work at the United States Senate:
At which point, Mrs. Clinton returned to her Senate office to find that her staff had set up a Ping-Pong table while she was gone.

There’s a new podcast episode up. Sorry for the delay on that, we’ve been a bit erratic around here. Enjoy!

Elections in Zimbabwe, interrogations in Pakistan, and Amtrak in America.
Links Mentioned: Assassinations in Zimbabwe … Godwin on FIFA and South Africa … CIA interrogations … AA’s CEO calls for regulation … the Amtrak bill … Krugman on home ownership.

Joe Bruno (no relation), the man who made Eliot Spitzer’s life miserable, is retiring.

Man, Tom Friedman sure is annoying today, getting all sanctimonious about how Bush needs to either get with the alternative-energy program or else STFU. But why is Friedman so angry? Bush already had a strategy to lower oil prices: invade Iraq. And he did so with the blessings of… Tom Friedman.
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I feel like the opening paragraph in this NYT piece on housing can barely contain the snark:
Driven largely by the surge in foreclosures and an unsettled housing market, Americans are renting apartments and houses at the highest level since President Bush started a campaign to expand homeownership in 2002.

Obama in his Father’s Day Chris Rock spiel:
Accompanied by his wife, Michelle, and his daughters, Malia and Sasha, who sat in the front pew, Mr. Obama, the presumptive Democratic nominee, laid out his case in stark terms that would be difficult for a white candidate to make, telling the mostly black audience not to “just [...]

Can’t it be both? Over the past few days, I’ve been wondering if, now that the primary is over, we can answer the question of whether the country is more sexist or racist.
Certainly it’s never going to be so clear cut, but the NYT has an interesting look at the role that [...]