"Sleep late Saturday" punditry, and the livin' is easy. Fish are jumpin'...
Gail Collins:
Whenever life feels dark and difficult, it’s always helpful to think about people who have it worse. Be thankful, for instance, that you’re not one of those co-pilots for regional airlines who make $16,000 a year and have to commute from Seattle to Newark. Or a person currently riding in a plane with a $16,000 co-pilot in the cockpit. Be thankful you aren’t a Chrysler dealer. Or Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid.
Bob Herbert:
Dan Klores’s stunning four-hour documentary film, "Black Magic," which will receive a Peabody Award on Monday, opens with a scene from America in 1944 that will seem for some people as ancient and backward as the Middle Ages.
It was a Sunday morning in March in Durham, N.C. A team of white basketball players from the Duke University Medical School who had bragged that they were the best players in the state had agreed to play an illegal game against an equally proud team from the North Carolina College for Negroes.
Guess who won? And why haven't you heard of them? And why aren't they in the Hall of Fame?
The Ninth Justice: relatively new National Journal blog with likelihood rankings, opinion, and a treatise on empathy.
Gallup: Pro-life now higher than pro-choice, and while most believe abortion should be legal under some circumstances (unchanged over the years), opinions are shifting nonetheless.
Update [2009-5-16 12:18:57 by DemFromCT]: Ed Kilgore has a nice take on this, as well.
NJ's Left and Right Blogistan poll: That L Blogistan thinks Cheney is a disaster for Republicans is no shock... but a quarter of R Blogistan agrees. And those guys never get anything right.
Charles Blow:
Michael Steele, who I am convinced suffers from some sort of diarrhea of the larynx, apologized for saying that religious bigots in the Republican base rejected Mitt Romney in part because he’s Mormon. (That’s probably true, but really Michael, just be quiet, or chillax, or whatever dated slang you prefer.)
One major exception to this trend of mea culpas: Dick Cheney.