Did you know that the blink tag is no longer allowed on many platforms? And here I wanted to make a play on words with it. Oh well, this will have to do:

Let’s give Frank Wolf every chance to lose. He deserves it.

• Judge Dred – Dante at DKos discusses the impulses behind the GOP’s attacks on the 14th Amendment. God bless the Republican Party – of the 1860s, that is. You know, the one that passed that Amendment in the first place?
• Cordoba House In One Image – With a tip-o-the-hat to DailyKos.
• The Byrd Organization – For may of us who came to Virginia in the past thirty years, there’s a vague awareness that Virginia was a one-party machine state for a long time, but that’s about it. The Byrd Organization was legendary and worthy of knowing about if only to admire its ramifications to this day, here in our Old Dominion.
• Leesburg’s Sorensen Councilman – Councilmember Dave Butler of Leesburg is attending the Sorensen Institute at UVA. This is a good thing.
• What Is It About 20-Somethings – Every few months another article is written about how young people these days suck, because they’re not doing things the way that the writer did things when s/he grew up. Here’s another. Of course, this one is in the Times. Hey everybody, guess what, it will be okay. Kids grow up, just not in the way that we did, or our parents did. Get over it!
• Liberals and Atheists Smarter? Intelligent People Have Values Novel in Human Evolutionary History, Study Finds – There’s been a lot of science done on culture war values these days (for example, Neuroscience investigates how people perceive justice). Here’s another.
• Why our children need to get outside and engage with nature – Okay, maybe our kids should play outside more, but “nature deficit disorder” is a bridge too far for me.
• “…unless you’re fat, and then you’re supposed to be ashamed”; Delta Burke, Suzanne Sugarbaker, And My Memory Of Being 9 Years Old The Rotund’s post brought up a lot of memories for me. The women on that show made me, child of red diaper babies that I was, very happy.
• Growing number of Americans think Obama is a Muslim – He isn’t, but so what if he were?