Today’s edition of quick hits.<\/p>\n
* On the day of John Edwards’ campaign announcement, MSNBC ran an on-screen caption<\/a> during coverage of the kick-off: “Multi-millionaire candidate to focus on poverty in America.” Gotta love that liberal media.<\/p>\n * Remember the year-old email from a Marine in Iraq that Cliff May presented as current yesterday? It turns out the Iraq Study Group took it seriously<\/a>, too, and even scrutinized and debated it. Scary.<\/p>\n * Fox News may have inadvertently acknowledged<\/a> that opposition to the war in Iraq is a mainstream position.<\/p>\n * Gale Norton has gone from being Bush’s Interior Secretary to being a lawyer for Royal Dutch Shell PLC. Shell, one of the world’s largest producers of oil, which just so happens to be “one of the companies that Norton’s Interior Department routinely engaged on matters of drilling in sensitive ecological settings.” Revolving door<\/a>, indeed.<\/p>\n * I’d never seen these outtakes<\/a> from Nixon’s White House, immediately before he announced he would resign the presidency, and found them pretty interesting. I’m kind of amazed to see him so … relaxed.<\/p>\n * Sen. Arlen Specter (R-Penn.) bucks the White House, says he’d talk<\/a> to Iran’s Ahmadinejad.<\/p>\n * “Brain calisthenics<\/a>“? Michael Froomkin seems to be tired of them<\/a> already. * The “Washingtonienne” story wasn’t my cup of tea, but I suspect the court fight<\/a> will end up being awfully interesting.<\/p>\n
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\n* I hate to say it, but it looks like Billmon has hung up the keyboard<\/a> for the last time. That’s a shame; even when the Whiskey Bar was closed, I took some comfort in knowing that it’d reopen eventually. This time, I’m afraid the Bar will be permanently closed.<\/p>\n