The Gateway (Aggregation Aggravation Edition)

TNR: “No publication is going to stop aggregating. But journalists might, as a collective whole pause to think about where our priorities ought to lie….Maybe we can establish a rough norm for ourselves: that we will continue to treat aggregation as a side project to what we really do…"

Why do I feel that they have me in mind? Is The Huffington Post Ruining Journalism? | The New Republic www.tnr.com (unfortunately, it’s behind the paywall)

 

 

When I think of a hemorrhoidectomy, I feel sorry for Dinesh D'Souza. Comment Of The Day – The Daily Dish | By Andrew Sullivan andrewsullivan.theatlantic.com

 

 

Orthodox Rabbis support right of homosexual to marry each other…sort of. Rabbis Ask Gay Men To Marry Lesbians – FailedMessiah.com failedmessiah.typepad.com

 

 

ROB DELANEY (On Twitter): "I would still drop my baby off at Charlie Sheen's house for a month before I'd let Sarah Palin run a lemonade stand."

Boy do I disagree; I think persuading Sarah to run a lemonade stand is an excellent idea.

Clichés embody great wisdom. Sarah's a lemon; making lemonade is the perfect solution.

 

 

Chait dams Walker, but also reminds liberals of an uncomfortable truth–elections have consequences. Maybe if they'd voted instead of staying home and whining about insufficiently liberal Democrats, they'd've avoided the consequences.

He also calls out the GOP as hypocrites, but that's hardly news. Scott Walker: Bad Guy, Yes. Dictator, No. | The New Republic www.tnr.com

 

 

Great war tales from the 69 Lindsay campaign. The late Bob Muir, who was working for Lindsay, later taught me about the science of vote slowing, something for which I was nearly arrested in 1989. Now I know where he learned it.

I should really tell that Bob Muir story one day. “Defensive operations” in the 1969 Lindsay campaign « Tales from the Sausage Factory talesfromthesausagefactory.wordpress.com

My article on left-wing hypocrisy concerning Kruger/Boyland forgot to note that the WFP has as much standing to call for campaign finance reform as Jared Loughner has to call for gun control, unless their message is "stop me before I shoot again."

Only Bloomberg has less standing.Seizing The Opportunity www.capitaltonight.com

 

 

Ruben channels Steve Martin: "We want Amigo money!" Capitol Confidential » Wanna donate your Krugerbucks? Send them to the Ruben Fund for Senate Excelle blog.timesunion.com

 

 

"The Pink House", AKA the Legislative Orifice Building.

It is alleged that the man who commissioned this house, Lucchese Crime Boss Anthony "Gaspipe" Casso, had the architect killed.

Justifiable homicide? http://tonygatto.files.wordpress.com/2011/03/mansion.jpg tonygatto.files.wordpress.com