New and improved! Or something like that.
- Ed from Gin and Tacos tackles casual racism.
- The Washington Post’s Greg Sargent breaks out the smelling salts because the President “attacked” the Supreme Court.
- American Progress’ Mark Agrast discusses John Roberts’ history of court-stripping. And not the fun kind either.
- From Nichelle Nichols’ twitter: her and the Nerd In Chief.
- Doghouse Riley is thinking of changing the name of his blog to “What Pierce Said.” I completely get that.
- Stan Collender (via Paul Krugman) thinks Bowles-Simpson is dead. I think he’s right, but I don’t think that’s going to stop Congress or the media from continuing to beat on it a bit more.
- The Atlantic’s Conor Friedersdorf argues that Mitt Romney has functionally won the GOP primary because all his opponents are or have been clownshoes.
- Ian Millhiser (Think Progress) covers the Fifth Circuit Court’s temper tantrum over President Obama’s comments regarding the Supreme Court ruling on the PPACA. Faiz Shakir (Think Progress) covers the Fox News reaction, in which Greta Van Susteren defends the President. I know, I can’t believe it either.
- Scott Keyes (Think Progress) discusses Rep. Steve King’s refusal to sign Grover Norquist’s anti-tax pledge.
- Jessica Goad from the Center for American Progress Action Fund (via Think Progress) pontificates on the Koch Industries-funded ALEC-backed legislation that is attempting to turn over public land to private corporate interests.
- Alex Seitz-Wald (Think Progress) reports on South Carolina Governor Nikki Haley’s comment that “Women don’t care about contraception.” I’m not a woman, but I know quite a few of them, and I’m pretty sure that they all care about unrestricted access to affordable contraception. Would a woman like to comment on this?
- Annie-Rose Strasser (Think Progress) opines on the new Arizona legislation (which means you know it’s going to be a doozy) that would make it illegal to be “lewd” or “profane” on the internet. I’m in favor of this legislation, only because I want to see Arizona try and arrest the entirety of 4Chan.
- Speaking of Arizona, TPMMuckraker’s Nick R. Martin talks about Rep. Daniel Patterson’s terrifying pattern of behavior.
- And finally, TPM’s Eric Kleefeld covers the case of a campaign’s twitter account following an opponent’s daughter’s twitter account, and in the process discovers that, underneath it all, we are all 15 year old girls.
