Slate’s Dickerson with a smart, irritated, funny piece on Scooter Libby: A lot has been written about how the Libby commutation undermines the rule of law, which Republicans are supposed to care about. The White House ducks this criticism. That’s bad enough, but to be expected. What’s deeply galling is simultaneously trying to portray the [...]

Ana: You missed one additional reason that older people have Facebook pages. Some of us–I’ll cop to it–are there trying to find out what’s on our kids’ pages. At least, that was my initial reason. But then I found out that I would have to actually impersonate a high schooler to infilitrate his group, and–well, [...]

Dogs Against Romney, via Andy via Professor B.

The AP dug into the relationship between Fred (for some reason now called “Fred!” by the wingnutsphere) and Nixon (or, as I like to call him, N!x@n). Nixon was disappointed with the selection of Thompson, whom he called “dumb as hell.” The president did not think Thompson was skilled enough to interrogate unfriendly witnesses and [...]