Enjoy, all my TL friends, and have a great day.

Besides, it's the same old people, saying the same old things, usually.  And more than a few of them are people whose general irrelevance and ignorance should have been reason to escort them away from the bright lights of TV cameras a long time ago.  

And the moderators and panels might as well comprise chattering monkeys and squawking parrots for all they ever add to anyone's understanding of anything.

As long as Geo Will is there, far too much of the hour is sucked up by his pompous declarations and interruptions.  Only the occasional visit from a forceful lib like Krugman makes tuning in worth while.

MTP with Stretch is even more predictably Beltwayish and controversy-averse than it was during the reign of Timmy.  About the only time it's watchable is when their panel features the feisty Paul Begala.  Carville, sadly, is overexposed.  Ditto for NBC's ubiquitous unofficial "historian in residence" Doris Kearns Goodwin, who manages to make history uninteresting as she parrots the standard uncontroversial Beltway take on figures from the past.

But we got a 10 minute discussion about how we should all strive to be better Christians, with the Sanford affair as the excuse.

IMO McCaskill "Unfairly Punished Missouri" by running for the Senate as a Democrat.

they really should just become the party of short-sighted arseholes (just look at all the foresight they use in running Wall St LOL)...

Let's tax the SHIZZLE out of cigs because of the health concerns, but lets not give a RATS ARSE about health concerns from smokestacks A BILLION times the size of a tiny cigarette...

Rape the world, reap the benefits, don't give an F about anyone but your immediate family...sounds like the Republican stand these days...

When hard boiled eggs develop the greenness around the yolk, that is ferrous sulfate.  Yes, you get a bit of iron from egg yolk, and when you screw up and cook your hard boiled eggs too much, you get to physically see it.

Okay, one more, if you insist.

If you want easily peelable hard boiled eggs, it's better to start with "old" eggs.  Egg shells are porous and water evaporation through the shell over time leads to less volume of egg white.  Less volume of egg white means less to "stick to" the shell when cooked.

And those are your interesting egg facts for the day.

I went to an unbelievable dinner party at Charlotte and George Shultz's penthouse Monday night for retired Army Gen. Eric Shinseki, the new secretary of veterans affairs.

The party was a Stanlee Gatti tour de force, complete with fatigue-wearing servers, camouflage table cloths, extras dressed up as snipers and a full Marine color guard and band.

It was like being in Afghanistan.

All this for about a dozen guests. Gov. Arnold Schwarzenegger was there with his wife, Maria Shriver. . . .

I was seated next to Arnold, and he seemed to be holding up pretty well, considering the nightmare going on up in Sacramento.

The dessert: a chocolate replica of the Joint Chiefs of Staff seal, surrounded with vanilla ice cream and the Golden Gate Bridge in chocolate on each side.

Every day last year -- extrapolating from United Nations estimates -- an average of more than 4 metric tons of opium, which can be made into some 1,320 pounds of heroin, moved on the northern route. Put another way, the equivalent of nearly 6 million doses of pure heroin -- at 100 milligrams each -- is carried across the northern Afghan border each day.

McClatchy

At approximately 6:30 a.m. local time, heavily-armed elements of the Honduran military began circulating outside the presidential palace. The president was reportedly arrested, taken to the airforce base in Tegucigalpa and transferred out of the country. This is a rapidly developing situation, with protestors now gathering in Tegucigalpa. Electricity has been cut and local media interrupted. Consider this a live blog of a coup . . . to be updated with background.

AP

And while it isn't clear that her husband, Congressman John Conyers, is peripherally involved, his name has come up. The US Attorney has said there wasn't any evidence that he was knowingly or intentionally involved in his wife's conduct, it still looks bad.

Monica Conyers has admitted accepting bribes in a sludge deal, but the Detroit councilwoman's political adviser and onetime chief of staff told the Free Press she received cash and jewelry for brokering other questionable transactions.

The aide, Sam Riddle, said Conyers even helped draft a letter sent by her husband, Congressman John Conyers Jr., D-Mich., to help a man with whom she had financial ties. It is unclear whether John Conyers knew of his wife's alleged link to the businessman.

In that deal, Riddle said, Monica Conyers arranged for Riddle to get a $20,000 contract with Greektown entrepreneur Dimitrios (Jim) Papas in about 2007. Riddle said Papas hired him for crisis consulting and political advising -- but he was never asked to do any work. She then demanded $10,000 of that money as a "finder's fee," Riddle said.

At some point after Papas paid him, Riddle said, John Conyers sent a letter to the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency in support of a controversial hazardous waste injection well in Romulus that one of Papas' companies was seeking to operate.

Federal investigators examined a variety of Monica Conyers' dealings. U.S. Attorney Terrence Berg said Sunday: "We didn't have any evidence the congressman was knowingly or intentionally involved in Ms. Conyers' illegal conduct."

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