Pics from Friday evening through Sunday afternoon, after the jump.
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Pics from Friday evening through Sunday afternoon, after the jump.
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Here’s a bit of Friday morning,
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Master caricaturist David Levine died in late December from cancer. The New York Review of Books’ website is currently hosting a career retrospective, spanning nearly five decades of his work. Worth your time alone are the 66 Nixons — including the three above — among the 2,500+ illustrations.

Sad Brad Smith / The Willowz
Two tracks. No. 1, Destruction, by the very awesome band, The Willowz, off its latest release, Everyone (Dim Mak 2009). No. 2, Baby, I’m So Sad, by Sad Brad Smith, off his debut L.P., Love Is Not What You Need (SBS 2009). Enjoy.
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250,000 citizens gathered on the National Mall (March on Washington for Jobs and Freedom -- 8/28/63)
“So what we are moving to (assuming we are not already there) is a basic breakdown in the possibility of genuine governance.” So writes in response to last night’s S.o.t.U. speech Prof. Sandy Levinson, of the University of Texas School of Law, on Balkinization, a blog featuring posts by many of our most prominent constitutional law scholars (including a professor or two of mine back when I was a law student). More and more often of late, I catch myself believing that a

"Alice at the Mad Hatter's tea party." — Illustration to the fifth chapter of 'Alice in Wonderland' by John Tenniel. (Wood engraving by Thomas Dalziel.)
Instead of pulling out and protesting, my advice to the tea baggers who can’t afford the expense ($549 per ticket and a $9.95 fee, plus hotel and airfare) of attending, in person, next month’s national
Could it be possible, for instance, that you and your fellow hardworking,

Associated Press photo (undated)
Images of scandalized celebrities: such are what we’ve apparently reduced ourselves to, at least in terms of our

Scott Brown's victory party
Those who practice the politics of anger (a.k.a. populists) typically ignore the old adage, “Be careful what you wish for.” More than anything else, what the tea baggers wish for today is nothing short of a Khmer
Observant, frequent 2b+3s visitors will notice, in the gray bar at the top of this a page, a link to a new page, MISC. Don’t be alarmed. It’s merely a depository of bits and pieces of the interweb, compiled by the mothership’s Google Reader aggregator, that I find interesting — but not interesting enough to merit a post. Enjoy at your own leisure.
When it comes to politics, I spend a considerable amount of time alternatively wondering whether I’m being too paranoid, on the one hand, or not paranoid enough, on the other. I’ve always believed that the events of tomorrow are wholly predictable so long as I’m paying sufficient attention to the events of today. Otherwise, history wouldn’t make any sense, it wouldn’t be linear, and couldn’t be captured as a narrative. And then there’s Andrew Sullivan, writing today that “a new,
Sullivan illustrates the difference between having a healthy sense of paranoia and being an alarmist.