When it Rains... (Václav Havel is gone)

...it pours.

I'm Tempted to Quote Dylan Thomas...

...but the grouchy old son-of-a-bitch would have (rightfully) slapped me down, if he'd bothered to notice (bloody unlikely.)  Goodbye Hitchens. I, for one, will miss you.

Give Pizza a Chance!

Sheesh, what could I possibly add to this?

Fantastic Four

That's Susan Rice, David Cameron, Nicolas Sarkozy, and Barack Obama.  Somehow I doubt the Teahadists (heh, stolen from the comments in the linked piece) will appreciate this very much!

Silly Me...

How did I manage to miss this tune until now?  

What? Was that a little too "Free Jazz" for ya?

Well, try this on for size:



Frank sure could play...

I guess I'm a...

churlish, joyless dick.  But while hating on the 'peas appeals to me for any number of reasons, I think I'll just post an antidote.



FTW.

The Limits of Discourse

Brendan provides some real clarity regarding the looming debate about rhetoric in the wake of the Giffords shooting.

Can we blame an individual act by some loon on a specific statement by a specific prominent conservative blowhard? Probably not, not any more than we can attribute a single nasty storm to anthropogenic global warming. But, as with AGW, there is something we can say with confidence -- muck with the climate, and you increase the odds that extreme events will happen.

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(h/t Angry Black Lady)

Added:  James Joyner's (different) view.