Here we go again.

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Blogs

Generally, I find Ann Coulter too caustic, but she’s hilarious and spot-on in her recent health care column.

I’ll say it again: we all picked the right city. Even though the Metro is apparently running off an old Atari 2600 (again: buy a bike) and U St is still loud (duh), tourism is up and unemployment is down. It seems that the recession hasn’t hit the imperial city very hard.

Lots of Gates affair links should be HERE, but I refuse to post them because the whole story is already annoyingly overcovered. Well, okay, just this one: Hail to the National Conflict Resolution Mediator.

The New Majority (thankfully) recognizes that something besides Gates drama is going on in the world, and says: “Too many pundits, not enough talk about what matters: gangs in schools.” Also, Thomas Gibbon comments on his experiences as a teacher in Baltimore schools.

The Moderate Voice examines the rise of the Huffington Post.

Reason Editor in Chief Matt Welch and Reason.com and Reason.tv Editor in Chief Nick Gillespie explain why the Obama honeymoon is over.

AFF

Peter Suderman explains why buying now and paying later won’t work for health care.

James Kirchick collects drunkard analogies.

David Frum reports that Jim DeMint found exactly the right tone on the health care debate.

Ana Marie Cox invited Dave Weigel onto “The Inside Story” to chew over the birther conspiracies, their racial underpinnings and their threat to Republicans. The post-show Web-exclusive part of the interview is now online (here).

Elizabeth Nolan Brown on oversharing:

I’m a huge fan of over-sharing…About myself. About the people around me. I’m sometimes accused by friends of telling too many details about their lives to other mutual friends, or to random strangers. I somewhat understand, but it’s never malicious. I just don’t understand the point in hiding most things. (note: most). I think it’s almost, as a rule, better if people know things about one another than don’t—if people blurt out how awkward they feel around one another, or how much they adore one another, how jealous they are, or in awe, or how they’re glad some thing has past, or they hope it will soon…