Saturday punditry! Hey, did you hear the one about Michelle and the Queen...?
Gail Collins:
If nothing else, the president’s trip overseas helped resolve the longstanding question of who can be more irritating, the Republicans or the French.
Charles Blow:
Lately I’ve been consuming as much conservative media as possible (interspersed with shots of Pepto-Bismol) to get a better sense of the mind and mood of the right. My read: They’re apocalyptic. They feel isolated, angry, betrayed and besieged. And some of their "leaders" seem to be trying to mold them into militias.
Gloria Borger: Hey, what's wrong with lobbyists? Come to think of it, what is wrong with Gloria Borger?
Fred Kaplan: Obama had a great G-20 and a great overseas trip, and proved himself a statesman.
Peggy Noonan: Okay, he had a good overseas trip. But — horrors! — Obama threatens to be greater than my sainted Ronald Reagan. This is unforgivable. Best to label him as grandiose; audacious is already taken.
Sen. Ben Cardin: I have an idea to save the newspapers...
Carol Dukes Hamilton via Science Speaks: HIV & TB News:
The World Health Organization has now reported that this dual epidemic -- in which people with HIV also are infected with TB -- is twice as bad as previously thought.
This means that people are now surviving HIV/AIDS only to die of TB -- a curable, highly contagious disease that is now the No. 1 killer of people with HIV. It also means that drug-resistant TB is spreading across the globe with the help of HIV.
Eugene Robinson:
Not even three months have passed since President Obama's historic inauguration, and already it tends to slip the nation's collective mind that the first black president of the United States is, in fact, black. There may be hope for us after all.
Washington Times: When you got nothin', go with "some people think Obama is a Muslim". OTOH, some people still believe in the tooth fairy. Likely it's the same people.
Pew: