President Obama plans to urge Congress to gradually shut down Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac, "seeking to buffer taxpayers from future housing market downturns." But Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac, one more time, didn't cause the housing bubble to burst -- banksters and their hifalutin financial "instruments" did that. I guess Mr. Obama figures that because he got Dodd-Frank passed, he can do something for the right wing. Wrong again. He can do the people's will, because that's his job.

Amazon CEO Jeff Bezos buys the Washington Post. I suppose I should applaud any business icon who espouses "long-term thinking," since the major problem with today's economy is that big corporations want all the goodies right now, but he's against folks like himself paying more in taxes, though a 91% tax bracket would force all those CEOs to think about the future. And note well how paragraph 6 blames "the epochal change from print to digital technology," and not the Post's shilling for an ever-more unpopular class of American elites, for the Post's problems. Also note well that Mr. Bezos is one of those elites.

Another day, another liberal who sees nothing wrong with getting rid of the filibuster, because of demographic trends and because Republicans suck so bad they won't elect many Presidents in the foreseeable future. It's like some people have no recollection of the filibuster saving the Estate Tax in 2006, or of how 9.11 rescued a walking-dead Presidency. It's also like they can't type out the words "talking filibuster" without their hands seizing up. And Scott Walker can win in 2016, especially if the economy's still bad. And Brian Sandoval can win even if it's not.

Want to read one of the worst arguments ever? I don't care if she raised Temple Grandin, Eustacia Cutler argues like a right-winger, one who'd make Jonah Goldberg seem lucid, no less -- she seems to think autism equals masculinity equals lack of empathy equals obsessive logicality equals computer fixation equals pornography equals child porn, plus maybe fathers should go to more autism conferences. Nary a fact nor piece of research sullies this free-associative trip (and the "80 to 90% divorce rate" in autistic families is crap-with-crap-sauce, by the way). And what's with all the sentence fragments?

Ted Nugent instructs us that Trayvon Martin "got" justice, because, you know, he was a troublemaker, and Ted doesn't need to actually prove that, because he can spot trouble a mile away. I bet I know how he can spot it, too. You know what? Ted Nugent just wants attention now. He's done getting it from this space.