There’s basically no national or ethnic group you can make fun of these days without being accused of racism, but a few are considered mildly less offensive than others. For example, you can always call Scots “stabby,” because they love to stab each other for sport, and Belgians are usually fair game, too, due to their treacherousness and love of mayonnaise. But as Paul Krugman discovered last week, you do not get away with insulting the Swiss. MORE »

• Bill Clinton goes to CT on Monday, to campaign for Lieberman, “stop the hemorrhaging.” [FireDogLake]

• “While Democrats love to make minorities feel like they are being disenfranchised, they do nothing to fight the disenfranchisement of all voters. ” [Blogs For Bush]
• Swiss are pussy lickers. [Captain's Quarters]
• Poor people are poor, dumb. “Maybe Hillary Clinton or Barack Obama or some other Democratic worthy will start barnstorming the country asking middle class workers why their wages have barely budged during a period when the economy has nearly doubled.” [Political Animal]
• Wired Magazine, with their “hyperactive, slightly autistic gadget-boy take on the world,” breaks genius into two categories: conceptualists (Frank Stella, Jasper Johns) and experimentalists (Rothko, Pollock). Grand art narratives continue to break feminine spirit. [Crooked Timber]