The Soft Cushions. Then the Comfy Chair.

Because the proper response to the announcement that Hillary Rodham Clinton is kicking off the 2016 Presidential Campaign season is thorough immersion in Monty Python sketches.  Not because I dislike Ms. Clinton, but because the fertilizer level in the news is about to rise.  And now for something completely different...

• Jurassicpork looks at police reactions to known white killers and unarmed black men.  Yes, he uses the G word.  You would too.
• Jesse Curtis weighs in with two articles to commemorate the sesquicentennial of the end of the Civil War:  "Why Black Southerners Fought" and "Why White Southerners Fought."   And yes, you need to read them both.
• My really-should-be-annual link to "I'm a Fighting Liberal," by the late Steve Gilliard, because the truth never gets old.  Driftglass reminded me (he's up to 2012 in his retrospective).

The rest of the open tabs seem to be about Puppygate, about which the less said the better.  Speaking of fertilizer.