Last year, poor ol’ Johnny Walnuts spent 75 percent of his campaign either changing Sarah Palin’s runny diapers or apologizing to once-famous musicians for using their songs in campaign commercials that nobody watched. One of those musicians was Jackson Browne, who, like John Mellencamp, could have had a brilliant career as a composer of truck commercial jingles, but instead decided to waste his talents on being a liberal. MORE »

• North Korea is launching a space rocket into Earth’s orbit, which is a known US territory. It’s… not going to like what it sees. [Daily Beast]
• John McCain and Jackson Browne continue to sue each with abandon over the pressing legal issue of when it’s okay to play “Running on Empty.” (Jurisprudence spoiler alert!: never.) [The Caucus]
• HERE, the most radical Marxist subset of spatially-concerned ACORNS, is folding in on itself in an abyss of corruption, as demonstrated by its use of a gritty font in its socialist agitprop. [Ben Smith]
• Disgusting fan-fiction coming out of DC today, as Washington’s most homosexual fat cats fantasize about what they’d most like to hear Barry to scream at them during sex. [Politico]
• Ha ha someone (Jesus) forced Leon Wieseltier to sort of arguably and incidentally go back on calling Ronald Reagan a “fool”, which was a popular put down back when Wieseltier was in a position to throw insults, in the 80s. Winner, as always: The Corner. [The Corner]

• The epic Gay vs. Mormon Civil War will now be fought–where else?–on Broadway. Gays have the home advantage, so Mormons will kick off. [AMERICAblog]
• Floridian polyadulterer Tim Mahoney refuses to stop showing up to meetings he wasn’t re-elected to go to. He says he intends to “ride this out,” that is, until it gets clingy and wants to go out to dinner all the time. [TPMMuckraker]
• Mostly embarrassing/formerly respected carpetbagger John McCain accused mostly embarrassing/formerly respected musician Jackson Browne of suing his campaign just for the publicity. Browne apparently put out an album a few months ago, as you are most certainly not aware. [HuffPost]
• Bill Clinton says he’s game to disclose information about his charities’ financial backers–some of them foreign–should this be necessary for Hillary’s vetting. [Daily Beast]
• Look at Saul Anuzis’ hilarious Twitter minutes about some meeting he realized was of course off-the-record. “My bad,” he Twits emoticonically. [Ben Smith]

Remember the good old days for embattled Sen. Joe Lieberman (D-Conn), when the fifty-term politician with the big heart from the little state bragged that he had his own special flavor of Walter Mondale’s mesmerizing “Norwegian Charisma,” something called “Joementum” that would help win the 2004 Democratic presidential nod and eventually become God-Emperor of Dune? MORE »