WaPo:
At the moment the Saints won the Super Bowl and New Orleans would never be the same, they spilled through the doors of Sidney's Saloon at the corner of St. Bernard Avenue and St. Claude. They jumped and they danced and they hugged and they shouted to the night, "Who dat say dey gonna beat dem Saints?"
WSJ:
Wait—does the entire country get the day off, or is it just New Orleans? It's everyone, right?
Jonathan Capehart:
After former Alaska Gov. Sarah Palin strode across the national political stage and chewed up the scenery with her bravura performance at the 2008 Republican convention, I wrote one PostPartisan after another comparing her to the talented, ambitious and fictional star Eve Harrington from the movie "All About Eve." Now that I've seen Palin's Saturday night address to the Tea Party convention in Nashville, I would like to extend my apologies to Harrington. She would never have given such a poor performance.
Mike Lupica:
Now there are many, many ways Sarah Palin could help this country. Running for President will never be one of them. You listen to her long enough and actually feel yourself getting dimmer by the minute, like a dying light bulb.
NY Times editorial:
The ongoing debate over sex education has been rekindled by a provocative new study [here] suggesting that teaching abstinence can delay the start of sexual activity among inner-city youngsters — if it is freed from the moralistic overtones and ideological restrictions that were the hallmark of abstinence-only programs under the Bush administration.
Paul Krugman:
We’ve always known that America’s reign as the world’s greatest nation would eventually end. But most of us imagined that our downfall, when it came, would be something grand and tragic.
What we’re getting instead is less a tragedy than a deadly farce. Instead of fraying under the strain of imperial overstretch, we’re paralyzed by procedure. Instead of re-enacting the decline and fall of Rome, we’re re-enacting the dissolution of 18th-century Poland.
We ain't done yet. Pass health reform and get this country moving again. You still have majorities. Use them.
EJ Dionne:
"I introduced myself as a fella who was defeated in 1994, the last time we didn't pass meaningful health-care reform," Inslee recalls saying. "I said it was a painful event, and I didn't want them to go through that pain." In politics, he told his colleagues, assuming the "fetal position" can be the most dangerous thing to do.
What he said.
Boston Globe quoting Robert J. Blendon, director of the Harvard Opinion Research Program:
"there remains a steady core of adults who, regardless of messaging and other efforts, has chosen not to get the H1N1 vaccine." Blendon added that this group's attitude regarding the virus "has proven very difficult for public health officials to change."
Anti-vax factions remain well-funded and well voiced, despite the retraction of the Wakefield paper on autism and MMR from the Lancet and Wakefield's censure. It isn't just attitude towards H1N1. But in the H1N1 department, parents (one half) did better than adults for themselves (one third).