The Dish

Not exactly a Betsy Ross story. Iraqi Konfused Kid blames the Kurds for the whole thing:

the only people who are actively seeking the retirement of the old flag and who hate it with all its gut are, unsurprisingly, the secessionist-dreaming Kurds, who are still dreaming their little chauvinistic Pan-Kurdish pipe dreams while we the Arabs, the ones who messed around with those Pan things and failed a century before them, can now enjoy this black comedy as they follow exactly the footsteps of our miserable fuck-ups.

Self-awareness is a wonderful thing.

Nevada updates here. It’s snowing in South Carolina.

Check out the tone:

There is this whole business of the new politics. Well I got a taste of the new politics today. We need a new politics where we all love each other. You’ve heard all that. There’s a radio ad up in the northern part of Nevada telling Republicans that they ought to just register as Democrats for a day so they can beat Hillary and go out and be Republicans next week and vote in the primary. Doesn’t sound like the new politics to me…

I will say it again – they think they’re better than you.

He only sounds like this when he’s losing the argument. But the Clintons can still win the nomination.

Here’s a nice time-waster: a stroll through all the many art installations – stained glass windows, mosaics, murals – that dot the New York City subway system. The winged mammal is at 81st and Central Park.

A last minute surge?

From Las Vegas:

Obama ended by calling Clinton’s comments “tricks” and said voters will stop listening to politicians because of them. At the end of the event, a man yelled out to Obama that he will be a better president than George Bush. Obama responded, “So would you!”

You can throw it away without fomenting mass murder in Africa. It just takes a little thought.

A photographic look at the food confiscated in a 48 hour period from travelers entering the US through JFK airport.

Two more:

Is John Edwards completely aware
that his rhetoric really does scare
most sensible voters
and General Motors.
And how’d we forget ’bout the hair?!

There once were two houses, Bush-Clinton
20 years in power they were sittin’
Though democracy in name
They’ve re-shaped our game
Co-monarchy would be much more fittin’