Events

Josh Marshall wonders about Dick Cheney's hunting accident Saturday: At a minimum it seems a tad ungentlemanly to put out word through your media operation that the guy you just shot was at fault for getting shot. But I don't know. Tom Lehrer wrote a song about it many years ago: I always will remember,'Twas a year ago November,I went out to hunt some deerOn a mornin' bright and clear.I went and shot the maximum the game laws would allow,Two game wardens, seven hunters, and a cow. Anyway, this flap...

Washington today is getting its biggest snowstorm in three years: A major snow storm pounded the Washington region overnight and this morning, dumping 20 inches of heavy wet snow in some locations and 8 or 9 inches elsewhere, causing power outages for nearly 200,000 consumers and disrupting travel by road, air and Metrorail. And in a later story: The snow swept in lazily yesterday afternoon and was expected to depart by midday today, giving residents ample time to dig out before the start of the...

From the Michigan Avenue Bridge.

Chicago Tribune columnist Eric Zorn makes some good points about the Jyllands-Posten cartoons in his blog today: [S]ome of the drawings make a point in exactly the same way that any good editorial cartoon makes a point, and they have a grown-up, even sophisticated purpose: To challenge those who use intimidation to block free expression and those who find in their religious texts justification for mass murder. Specifically, Jyllands-Posten commissioned the cartoons to make a defiant statement after...

Charles Darwin was born 197 years ago this Sunday. In his honor, I proudly link to Garry Trudeau getting it just right.

First, House Majority Leader John Boehner is renting an apartment from a D.C. lobbyist: Rep. John A. Boehner (R-Ohio), who was elected House majority leader last week, is renting his Capitol Hill apartment from a veteran lobbyist whose clients have direct stakes in legislation Boehner has co-written and that he has overseen as chairman of the Education and the Workforce Committee. The relationship between Boehner, John D. Milne and Milne's wife, Debra R. Anderson, underscores how intertwined senior...