• Michele Bachmann, Joe Lieberman, Sarah Palin, the Washington Post op-ed section and New York City all spent the past week being complete assholes. [Paul Slansky]
• Even if you look like some big bald chipmunk-cheeked giant baby — you know, John McCain — that doesn’t mean you will necessarily lose elections, like John McCain loses elections. [Alex Pareene]
• John McCain’s girlfriend Lindsey Graham went on a Sunday news-chat show and started lisping about John McCain’s dumb criticisms of Obama’s cool handling of the crazy Iran situation, and George Will said, “You, Lindsey Graham, are a pathetic old fool.” [Think Progress]
• John McCain is such a belligerent jackhole for making his idiotic, dangerous comments about how if HE somehow had become president, he would make sure that whole Iranian democratic revolution crashed as quickly as every plane he ever piloted … or so says Peggy Noonan, anyway. [Wall Street Journal]
• An actual Navy destroyer ship called the “USS John McCain” has gone rogue and will soon attack North Korea, to get back at Charlie for good this time. [Fox News]

• Did you know the entire week of creepy political news is available in Index Form? Can you even imagine? [TIME/Paul Slansky]
• Obama is destroying what’s left of the GOP by sending moderate Utah Governor Jon Huntsman to … China, yes, that will do nicely. [Top of the Ticket/Salt Lake Tribune]
• One of those shouty guys on the Cable News Shows is getting very shouty about himself! [Al Giordano/The Field]
• Warren Buffet bought a bunch more Wells Fargo stock, which probably explains (?) why 4 million Wells Fargo customers can’t access their goddamned online accounts and bill pay. [MarketWatch/Venture Beat]
• Nerds In Space: Actual astronauts on the International Space Station watched the new Star Trek movie last night, on a laptop, in space, on a space station, speeding around the Earth. [NYT Carpetbagger]

John Hope Franklin — the esteemed historian, author and professor who died Wednesday at the age of 94 — lived through nearly half of U.S. History. And hell yes, he stayed angry. But he also saw an interesting development in the last months of his life.

And he saw something else, in November. MORE »