RIP Elizabeth Taylor. Weird fact: she outlived the guy who wrote the obit at that link by six years. Sick fact: the Westboro hate cult announced plans to picket her funeral, because of her work raising awareness about AIDS. On the optimistic side, they often make these announcements and then wind up being no-shows, so it may never happen.
Madison's The Capital Times has a good article on the upcoming Prosser-Kloppenburg race for Wisconsin's Supreme Court. Gov. Walker's union-busting has shaken up the political landscape here and this will be the first election held after it. We'll see whether the shaking up affects conservative gains in the state the same way an earthquake affects an Etch-A-Sketch drawing, but the article makes a couple points clear; Kloppenburg supporters are fired up and Prosser -- once considered a shoe-in -- is awfully nervous. Go JoAnne!
A new Pew poll finds that President Obama would easily beat off a generic Republican. In response, National Review's Jonah Goldberg hints that the time has come to call out the GOP circular firing squad.
One of my senators, Ron Johnson, is a real jackass.
Maine Gov. Paul LePage wants to remove a mural depicting labor history -- from the lobby of the state's Department of Labor.
Apparently stung by being so completely wrong on such a consistent basis, Bill Kristol decides to stick to making the easiest, most obvious calls in the world.
Finally, according to a senior British commander, Ghaddaffi's air force is now non-existent. Which, of course, means we're done enforcing the no-fly zone over Libya. Right? Right?
I guess we'll see.
