In noting that the Washington Post endorsed Barack Obama, Atrios wrote the following:

There really was never any doubt about who Fred Hiatt's gang would endorse. The best way to push your center-right agenda is to pretend it's actually a center-left agenda. That's been the racket for as long as I can remember.

My very own corporate parasite, Aetna, is losing the battle for public opinion in the pages of New Jersey's Bridgeton News. In a story on the reaction to Aetna's decision to drop The Center for Diagnostic Imaging (CDI) of Cumberland County from its network, Andrea Scapellato, whose husband has been depending on CDI for regular ultrasounds, is quoted:

"First you have to pay for insurance, and then you can't even go where you want to go," she said. "We live in the United States, not communist China or Russia."

An unsubstantiated third person account of an Obama ad airing on Rush's show yielded a litany of slurs (amoral!) against Obama, yet when Bill Clinton goes on the show as a guest to campaign for Hillary, not a peep. Seems fair to me...

Titter. I'll have to go get a ski mask. The game would make a nice gift, for those of you looking for gift ideas. They even have a blog.