I'm glad to hear this investigation is widening, because you just don't steal that much money without someone else knowing about it: Two days before Bernard Madoff enters an 11-count guilty plea in Manhattan federal court, the investigation into his giant Ponzi scheme has broadened to include a numb...

My punchline was:“Christ, I feel like the Addams family sometimes ... 'Good evening, we’re non-monogamous... Can Pugsly get you a drink'?�The video ends just before I say that... dang.I realize I've gone from "no video!" to "TV whore" in a matter of weeks, but I have never been captured so......

Duncan: I know I’ll make this point a billion times before this is all over, but there’s a difference between thinking that well run financial intermediaries (which, in theory, competition will create) are necessary for a modern economy and believing that the semi-oligopolistic system of...

And Digby, too. And this is pretty damned interesting, too. Josh Marshall: It turns out that one of the features of the 2005 Bankruptcy bill was to put derivative counter parties [like CDS holders] at the front of the line ahead of other creditors in bankruptcy proceedings. Actually, from what I can...

David Frum speaks to the Republican base: Here’s Rahm Emanuel on Face the Nation yesterday: “the voice and the intellectual force and energy behind the Republican party.” What a great endorsement for Rush! … But what about the rest of the party? Here’s the duel that Obama a...

I’ve been thinking for the past few weeks that Arlen Specter should switch back to the Democratics party. Dick Polman points out all the reasons why that’s such a good idea....

Considering the Taliban belief system, this should be a long hard slog. (But in other news, Maureen Dowd addresses the much weightier question posed by David Brooks: Should Michelle Obama cover up her biceps?) WASHINGTON — President Obama declared in an interview that the United States was not win...

Glenn Greenwald points out why the use of unnamed sources is so misleading to the public: In order to assuage concerns among progressives that the Obama administration intends to follow in the Bush administration's footsteps by trying to cut Social Security benefits, high-level Obama officials have ...

Props to Noz, whose comments made me rethink what I previously wrote. This is a slightly different version of what appeared earlier today: Glenn Greenwald points out why the use of unnamed sources is so misleading to the public: In order to assuage concerns among progressives that the Obama administ...

Ah, hamantaschen: nector of the goods. Ah, Purim: a delightful and whimsical holiday, the centerpieces of which are merriment, games, and, as with most any Jewish holiday, special foods! The edible star of Purim is the hamentaschen. Typically a sweet dessert, made out of of pasty dough cooked around...