Walter Cronkite, Iconic Anchorman, Dies [NYT]

blogenfreude adds:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=g_sWmD6NvMY

Creep		Years Married	Kids	Bimbo	Quotable
	Chip Pickering	21	5	Daughter of future lobbying client	“This gives me an opportunity to have more time with my family and more resources for my family.”
	John Ensign	22	3	Campaign staffer	“Marriage is the cornerstone on which our society was founded.”
	Mark Sanford	20	4	Argentine Firecracker	“The bottom line is that he lied under a different oath — the oath to his wife.”

Another C Street Vet Falls To An Extramarital Affair [TPM]

While interviewing Weekly Standard editor Bill Kristol on his radio show yesterday, Dennis Miller suggested that…

• They compete to see who can eat the most shit while grinning.
• They compare whether political failure is easier to live down than comedic failure.
• They entertain themselves with Paul Lynde impressions.

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1. I don’t recall.

2. I don’t recall.

3. I don’t recall.

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Fifteen statements. 19,754 words. We read them all. You didn’t miss anything.

Sotomayor Opening Statements [TPM]

We’re not sure why everybody’s buzzing about Peggy Noonan’s hit piece on Sarah Palin — unless it’s that everybody loves a good catfight. Because as Paul Krugman points out, it’s more than a little late to take Peggy’s newfound respect for elites seriously.

And besides, last we checked, Peggy was advocating for the sweet mystery of torture. Do what you have to, but don’t bring it into the house, dear.

But since we seem to be stuck with it as a topic of polite conversation, let’s pick out a passage that’s been bothering us all weekend:

Her lack of any appropriate modesty did her in. Actually, it’s arguable that membership in the self-esteem generation harmed her. For 30 years the self-esteem movement told the young they’re perfect in every way. It’s yielding something new in history: an entire generation with no proper sense of inadequacy.

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Title: “Cashless: Bible Prophecy, Economic Chaos, and the Future Financial Order”

Author: Mark Hitchcock

Rank: 9,278

Blurb: “According to Mark Hitchcock, author of several bestselling prophecy books and a trusted expert in this field, what is happening in the world today is consistent with prophecy written in Revelation 13, which predicts a one-world economy under the rule of the Antichrist.”

Review: None. So let’s enjoy more blurb: “Will there be a one-world economy in the end times? What is the mark of the beast? Does modern technology relate to the mark? How does the absence of cash prime things for the Antichrist?”

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