Potpourri for 700

My mom's microwave has a Potato setting that can actually deal with sweet potatoes and yams.  This is good because sweet potatoes are on the Probably Healthy Foods list and can offset some of the other things.  Ahem.

Meanwhile:

• Comments From Left Field is For Sale (Mr. Tedesco is getting out).  Drat.  There were interesting posts there.  Anonymous Liberal is also gone.  
• Doghouse Riley at Bats Left/Throws Right lambastes Evan Bayh in his usual inimitable manner.  You might also want to check out the video discussing the late fees on the bills of Indiana state agencies and the reaction when a reporter questions Gov. Mitch Daniels about that.
• Lance Mannion on what the American Taliban really aspire to.  
• Sadly, No! dissects a piece by Michelle Malkin, with a picture of her face somewhat distorted by hate, and I can't help wondering:
1. Does she know that she's exposing the ugliness of her soul instead of what she thinks her audience wants to see?  (Although that may be what they want to see.)
2. Has she heard the bit about one's face freezing in characteristic positions as one ages, and would she want her face to freeze in that grimace?
• No More Mister Nice Blog on a popular Democratic politician's subservience to "business."
• Jill at Brilliant at Breakfast spotlights Alexander Bolton's article from The Hill speculating about Jeb Bush as veep candidate.
• And R. I. P. Robin Gibb, Bee Gee.  (He had come out of a coma a few weeks ago...)