We can’t talk about the world cup without mentioning…

…one of the greatest matches of all time: Germany vs Greece What would the US lineup be in such a game?

Foster Kamer as Vizzini

Foster Kamer has a post up at the village voice about who smeared Dave Weigel, a gem from the piece: I’m of the idea that Journolist was a bad idea in practice — because there is always a rat, always — but think that writers should be allowed to be sentient human beings with, you [...]

Why is Robert Byrd suddenly a “conservative”?

That is what the Washington Post calls him: Robert C. Byrd, a conservative West Virginia Democrat who became the longest-serving member of Congress in history and used his masterful knowledge of the institution to shape the federal budget, protect the procedural rules of the Senate and, above all else, tend to the interests of his [...]

Talk about a timely article: Robert Byrd dead at 92

When the news came that Sen Byrd was hospitalized this article came out at Five Thirty Eight: Byrd’s current term expires on January 3, 2013. Under West Virginia state law on handling Senate vacancies, “if the vacancy occurs less than two years and six months before the end of the term, the Governor appoints someone [...]