Chicago’s “Slum Landlord to the Stars,” Tony Rezko, was arrested for some “slum landlord” crime on Monday. Although Barack Obama, his ol’ pal from the community organizing days in the South Side, had claimed to not *really* have any interaction with this guy, he is now taking $150,000+ in Rezko-tainted donations and giving them to Charity, and this is a Hopeful Change. Chris Matthews and various Obamatards around the world will likely blame this on Hillary Clinton, because that’s what they do when their own candidate has fucked up. [Chicago Sun-Times]

Doug Feith, dumbest fucking guy on the planet, donated $2,300 to Fred Thompson. [Latest Politics]

• RFK Stadium? More like RF-Gay Stadium! [Worth Repeating]
• Bill Cosby takes on the WaPo, because nobody else will. [Poynter]
• Find out who your neighbors are backing, so as not to piss them off. [DC Campaign Data]
• Are you a Craigslist Douchebag? Oh yes you are. [LMNOP]
• A history of gentrification, with graphs. [The Goodspeed Update]

Help us out here, Slate’s not being sarcastic, right? This is actually a genuine plea to donate to Scooter Libby’s defense fund? Just to ensure that next January’s media circus is as entertaining as possible? Shit, they’re beating us to the WonkettePAC idea. MORE »