• By Beau Friedlander
    If you had a problem with all the Clintonistas joining ranks with Obama (for the record we are not), you're really going to lose it today. Clinton, Gates? Team of rivals or flock of hawks? You decide. (New York Times)

    The Washington Post's Marie Arana points out something we've been saying for a while (entre nous): Obama is not black.

    Do unprecedented door-buster sales and increased numbers of shoppers mean that Black Friday was not a complete disaster? That is the question. (Wall Street Journal)

    While the true hearts of the left observed By Nothing Day on Friday, others went to Walmart. One man actually died where the Lord of the Flies became a grown-up affair...



    Alternet pieces together the Mumbai attacks.

    Over at Firedoglake, Siun covers the Iraqi vote on SOFA, which would suggest that Iraq wants the occupation to continue. But not. It's confusing. So read about it here.
  • By Lionel

    Maybe I had too much sauterne yesterday.  Maybe I OD'd on turkey tryptophan and was in fact asleep, or sleepwalking -- postprandial somnambulism, perhaps.  But while all hell was breaking loose at the Taj and terrorists ran amuck in Mumbai, and every legitimate news source and network seized the obvious opportunity to provide some coverage and analysis -- hell, only the Weather Channel didn't cover some part of this horrid day -- MSNBC, I could have sworn, broadcasted a seemingly endless, all-day "Lockup: Raw" marathon.

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