"The Piano Has Been Drinking"

• Driftglass has the video atop a post on the right-wing pundit mentioned a couple of weeks ago, but nothing says "Monday" like Tom Waits.
• Two related items from Mercury Rising's Phoenix Woman:
• A Senator from New Jersey (Robert Menendez) has been accused of sleaziness by something called the Daily Caller.  The Washington Post has refuted the smear.  There are ongoing shenanigans.
• Right-winger throws fit. Let the quizzing begin.

  Really, Roger? Still pretending that the Washington Post is the only entity that’s called the Caller‘s smear job into question? When the FBI found it baseless? When ABC, the New Jersey Star-Ledger, and the Associated Press have all publicly cast doubt on it? Did all of these entities somehow interview the wrong hookers, Roger? Are they all paying hookers to trash the Caller? Really?

• Well, why does no one speak of America's oligarchs?  (From naked capitalism.)
• Income and wealth inequality.  (Yes, the title is hyperbole.  You've seen worse.)
• Surgical strikes, my a--  Excuse me.  Drone warfare is no better than non-drone warfare.
• "The piano has been drinking, the piano has been drinking, not me."