Late afternoon/early evening open thread

Coming up on Sunday Kos ....

• Did white voters have a problem voting for Barack Obama?  The answer is yes and no. DHinMI will look at the data and show where Obama did fine with white voters, and where he did worse than Al Gore and John Kerry.
• Devilstower will look at that great eighteenth century blogger (well, would-be blogger) Joseph Priestley, in a review of Steven Johnson's book, The Invention of Air.
• Imagine what it would be like if Carson Daly secured the first post-presidency interview of George W. Bush, and you have some idea of what Adam B saw when he watched Frost/Nixon, which he will review in-depth.
• Bernie Madoff, the credit crisis, and a cratering stock market aren't the only things keeping corporate executives up at night.  Trapper John will look at the desperate backlash of the corporate class against the reform and middle-class stimulus promised by the Employee Free Choice Act.
• brownsox will continue his preliminary look at 2009 and 2010 elections.
• Sean Penn's smile alone makes his performance as Harvey Milk one of the great ones. And, as MissLaura will write, the decision to go for joy over Very Serious Film represents just one more degree in that arc bending toward justice we hear so much about.
• As we now know, the Bush Recession began in late 2007. Yet for most of 2008, George Bush, John McCain, and Phil Gramm were all trying to convince us that the economy was fundamentally sound and that we were merely experiencing a mental recession. Well, they were wrong, and we were right. Jed L will take a trip down YouTube's memory lane to assemble the clips of the G.O.P.'s leadership denying the reality we could see before our very eyes.