Meanwhile, Rush Limbaugh would like to know why it is that white people get blamed for slavery.
Pres. Obama plans to go on the offensive on the issue of the economy.
A huge jailbreak by Al Qaeda in Iraq releases hundreds -- if not more than 1,000 -- inmates from Abu Ghraib in Iraq. ThinkProgress's Hayes Brown has a good take on the story,
Statistician Nate Silver is moving from the New York Times to ESPN and ABC. This makes a lot of sense, since Silver actually began his career as a Sabermetrics analyst predicting baseball outcomes and it's a long stretch between presidential campaigns. And apparently, he wasn't a good fit over at the Times anyway. He'll appear as a contributor on ABC during election years.
Count John McCain out on any further hostage-taking over the debt ceiling.
A CNN contributor say Kate Middleton is "brilliant" for being able to give birth to a boy. "There are women throughout British royal family history that have panicked over not being able to deliver a boy, and here we are, Kate did it first time," said Victoria Arbiter -- as if this is something you can choose to do with enough effort, willpower, and gritty can-do spirit.
Bottlenose dolphins give each other names.
Finally, the bumblebee makes an unexplained -- but not unwelcome -- comeback.
[cartoon via Truthdig]
