Mittwoch

1. Yes, I did rearrange the blogrolls, somewhat, even though Blogger really didn't want me to, and doesn't like titles for my blogrolls.  Migrating this mess to Wordpress is not on the agenda.  Yet.  (Incidentally, the signing party for Metsgrrl is today.)
2. Terrance Heath is totally incandescent lately.
1. Another conservative outraged that the poor still eat.

   Only a conservative like Varney — and possibly Paul Ryan — could be outraged that poor people aren’t starving in the streets, for the sake of the national debt. It’s par for the course for Varney, who has in the past boasted about being “mean to poor people.”

   With videos.
2. Why conservatives keep trying to undermine Obamacare, part umpty-ump.

   Obamacare isn’t perfect. It still leaves 31 million uninsured, because it’s not a universal program. But conservatives don’t have an alternative path to health care reform that even comes close to accomplishing what Obamacare does, because it would run counter to their core ideology. That’s not a “bug” of conservative health policy. It’s a feature.

It is disgraceful that Mr. Heath is not better known than Mr. (ugh) Brooks. Speaking of whom,
3. Driftglass (complete with Fail-Safe and Fawlty Towers videos) observes the rest of the MSM finally catching up to Mr. Brooks' lack of substance.
4. Jurassicpork (Welcome Back to Pottersville) on voter turnout.  (Actually, ahem, lack of voter turnout.)  [ETA:  Seeing the Forest suggests that the voters had no reason to turn out.  Hmmmmm.]
5. Late in this article by Cerberus at Sadly, No!, this sentence appears:

   The more homophobes seem to think that people will stop having straight sex the second that people are allowed to be in queer couplings, the more I am convinced that the homophobes arguing this don’t have a straight bone in their bodies.

   That's why I love the blogosphere.  Another mewling right-wing-identified writer's column thoroughly analyzed and found to contain negative nutritional value.
6. Lagniappe:  Long post at Welcome to Pottersville 2 touching on various subjects, including Mr. Varney.  (I am restraining myself from typing "the Vampire" because it's too obvious.)  I forgot this blog's existence because it didn't update for a while, but apparently now it's current.

70 degrees F. Why am I indoors?