Remember Sidney Blumenthal? He was a bigshot print journalist back when that last mattered, in the early 1990s. And then the Clintons saved him from obsolescence by making Sid a very special part of the Bill/Hillary circle. They are loyal, as long as you never cross them in any way: Blumenthal is still working for the Clintons today. But he’s now facing “aggravated DWI” charges for allegedly driving so very drunk in New Hampshire last week. [The Smoking Gun]

If any members of Congress were driving on the I-80 in Berkeley yesterday, they may have seen this hilarious sign that makes the argument that, uh, somebody came on our dress. So it’s time for impeachment! Well, hell, it worked last time. Sort of. Okay, it didn’t actually work last time, but at least impeachment proceedings actually started and thrilled the nation for a few weeks! That’s something. And then Bill Clinton continued to be the most popular president ever and we were all rich — okay, some of us were rich — and oh my god we weren’t all losing our houses to foreclosure and the dollar was worth like nine Euros and Al Gore hadn’t even invented global warming yet. MORE »