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Ian McShane narrates McCain: Reformed Maverick: The Daily Show has outdone itself with this one.

(Via The Lippard Blog.)

This may be the greatest mix tape ever.

TPMCafe | Talking Points Memo | Lawyers, Troopergate, and Questions:

“‘This week, seven key witnesses informed Mr. Branchflower through their attorneys that they would not provide depositions. Their depositions, which had been agreed to and scheduled earlier with Mr. Branchflower, were cancelled within the last 72 hours.’”

WTF? Can you say obstruction of justice? Is W going to pardon her before he leaves office?

Biden is fantastic.

Well that was a nice little shaker.

Sing it, Joe!: THIS is why I was glad Joe Biden got the VP nod from Barack Obama:

Fightin’ Joe. Yes, he is, as Karl Rove said, a big blowhard doofus. But he’s OUR big blowhard doofus, and he knows how to tell it like it is. And after he and Obama are elected, we’ll make him atone for the bankruptcy bill.`12

(Via Brilliant at Breakfast.)

Here’s a fun lecture in PDF form on generators in Python, from David Beazley. I have his Python Essential Reference, which is good, but not as good as these slides are; there’s a zillion good ideas in this thing.