“A senior aide for Sen. Barbara Boxer (D-Calif.) was arrested Tuesday for attempting to bring marijuana into the Hart Senate Office Building, according to U.S. Capitol Police reports.” [Politico]

“Incumbent Republican Jan Brewer said Thursday she has no intention of participating in any more events with Democrat Terry Goddard. She said the only reason she debated him on Wednesday is she had to to qualify for more than $1.7 million in public funds for her campaign.” [Arizona Daily Star]

Dave Weigel is now in the employ of Slate, owned by the Washington Post, following his abruptly abbreviated tenure at — well, at the Washington Post, but let’s not get into that.

Instead, let’s take up his Wednesday column subheaded “African-American conservatives explain that the only racists are those who worry about race-based prejudice.” And let’s ignore the substance of the column, in order to focus on the complaint of commenter “Sissy Willis,” who calls Weigel out for using “code” language:

“Chorus line of black conservatives” = minstrel show
“tan suit/black shirt” = not authentically black/supporter of fascism
“reverse racism grievance industry” = anti-racism, anti-reverse-racism, all black people are alike
“whipsawed by conservative media” = punished by the overseer, e.g. Simon Legree
“bumper crop of black conservative stars” = sharecroppers
“professional black conservative” = paid puppet or Uncle Tom

And while we’re ignoring things — because hey, life is short — let’s dwell on Alleged Codeword #4: “whipsawed”.

Quite honestly — and we do pay attention — that’s a new one to us.

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Left: The latest in a series of educational billboards instructing the citizenry on the quality of their leadership.

Right: Oops!

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We’ve been following Dave Weigel for awhile — first at the Washington Independent, then at WaPo, where he recently moved to continue his coverage of wingnuts and teabaggers.

Now we’ll have to find him somewhere else, because he just resigned today.

Turns out Dave was also active off-blog — at “Journolist”, a private email list for shop talk. Fishbowl DC decided to liberate some of his messages there, two of which we find delightful:

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We’re starting to see the wisdom in Orrin Hatch’s plan to put the kibosh on inflating military records:

Gov. Jan Brewer said in a recent interview that her father died fighting Nazis in Germany. In fact, the death of Wilford Drinkwine came 10 years after World War II had ended.

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https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5NTRvlrP2NU

“Did you learn anything?” asks Tiger’s dad. Who died, oh, four years ago.

Well, Pop, I may have learned not to bareback my 22-year-old neighbor. We’ll have to wait for the next commercial to find out.

‘Creepy’ ad uses Tiger Woods’ dead dad to help rehabilitate image [Raw Story]

Tiger Woods’ latest alleged lover is young neighbor Raychel Coudriet [Daily News]