I have the night off – the girlfriend is cooking me chicken katsu:

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Confession – I used to hang out at Elaine’s once in a while in the early 2000s, and I met one of my myriad girlfriends there. Talked with Elaine a couple times – always a gracious host. And they could cook risotto right – the true test of a restaurant.

(AP) – Elaine Kaufman, the colorful restaurateur whose East Side establishment, Elaine’s, became a haven for show business and literary notables, died Friday at the age of 81.

Ms. Kaufman died at a Manhattan hospital of complications from chronic obstructive pulmonary disorder and pulmonary hypertension, according to a statement issued by the restaurant’s representative.

Her restaurant, featured in Woody Allen’s Manhattan, is the oldest of the old school on the island.

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Don’t know where to get Jezebel’s version of this video, but you can watch it here. Pallin’s crew basically turns the music back on to avoid questions from a CNN reporter. I also think I heard: “get them out of here.”

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Can she hide forever and still get elected again?

Need another sign that this country is headed off a cliff? The ascendence of Birthers, Tenthers, Thirteenthers, and other GOP imbeciles not enough for you?  Check out this bit of revisionism:

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This is the most sensible thing I’ve read so far on L’Affaire Assange:

The main reason why Wikileaks causes so much anxiety with our journalists is that they haven’t really faced the fact that the watchdog press they treasured so much died under George Bush. It failed, and instead of rushing to analyze this failure and prevent it from ever happening again, instead of a truth-and-reconciliation-commission-style effort that would look at how could this happen, mostly what our journalists did, with a few exceptions, was they just went on to the next story. The watchdog press died, and what we have is Wikileaks instead.

jump to watch Jay Rosen’s video:

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How could his replacement (he’s retiring) be any dumber? Oh wait – he is almost certainly dumber.

Guy effectively loses joint custody of his kids because he’s not Christian – Alabama, maybe, but Indiana?

Cenk was all over this today on MSNBC.