Democracy, Inaction
- When he’s not busy launching missiles into the ocean, for funsies, North Korea’s Kim Jong-Il is attacking South Korea’s internets. This is concrete evidence that the North Korean government lurks 4chan. (Wall Street Journal)
- New York Republicans have persuaded a judge to prevent Gov. David Paterson from appointing a Lieutenant Governor because if they did have one, the state Senate would have to actually do some governing. (Newsday)
- Jeb Bush is not sure if President Obama is a Socialist. (Protip: he is not.) Meanwhile, I don’t know why a member of the Bush family is being taken seriously when talking about politics. (CNN)
- Four men walked straight through security into federal buildings carrying bomb-making materials. Good news: the men were GAO agents investigating lapses in federal security. Bad news: it is apparently very easy to bring bomb-making materials into federal buildings. (Washington Post)
- Israel’s batshit-crazy Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu does not care for David Axelrod or Rahm Emanuel, who he called “self-hating Jews.” (Haaretz)