• BARACK OBAMA HAS NO VALID EXCUSE FOR SPEAKING AT THIS COLLEGE: So the right has been saying that the President of the United States, Obama, should not speak at the famous college Notre Dame because he is pro-choice, and now the left — or at least a few wily provocateurs at The American Prospect! — says that he should not speak at the famous college Notre Dame because “a progressive president shouldn’t support an institution that reserves 25 percent of its admissions seats for legacies.” Huh. Hmm… uhhhh… eh. SO, Notre Dame, you say? That’s the one with the football team, right? [The American Prospect]

So the hope for today was to talk about The Nation. And I assure you, there would have been winning remarks about that dumb period in its name. But unfortunately, The Nation is not all the way on the Internet yet, and since we all have German history discussion sections to head off to, or the equivalent thereof, and god even knows when The Nation. will finally show up, now we have to talk about The American Prospect. TAP is all well and good, except many of the articles require your money, but we’re only going to be talking about those that don’t so DON’T WORRY. MORE »

Famous-for-DC American Prospect blogger Ezra Klein usually keeps it clean on his lefty blog, but on his Twitter micro-blogging side project account, he’s just another sick fucking Wonketteer.

UPDATE: Ezra Klein responds… MORE »

They’ve been holding a pledge drive to pay Ezra Klein, they kicked Brendan Nyhan off the blog for picking fights with the big dogs, and now there’s a bit more trouble at lovable-but-unread liberal magazine The American Prospect. MORE »

Okay, maybe not; but it doesn’t hire them either. The American Prospect, the highly regarded liberal journal, has a prestigious and successful fellowship program. Former fellows include Ezra Klein and Matthew Yglesias. MORE »

• “Iraqi leaders postponed by several hours today a special session to submit a draft constitution to the National Assembly, giving themselves more time to work on a document that has been plagued by what its drafters have described as ‘a totally whacked out printer.’” [Reference Tone]
• Chuck Schumer likes coffee ice cream and the sound of his own name. [WP]
•“John Roberts is either a mad bomber of abortion clinics or a homo-tastic friend of the sodomite.” [TDS @ Comedy Central]
• The American Prospect pities the contributor whose “politics were drifting Rightward without me even realizing it. These things happen, I was told, and not without some sympathy.” [Reason's Hit and Run]
• The only reason you should care about what these people think of recent albums is that one of them will probably pick Hillary’s genera-rock campaign theme. [NYM]