The New Yorker’s Seymor Hersh spoke about the video tapes yet to be released from Abu Ghraib.

Hersh gave a speech last week to the ACLU making the charge that children were sodomized in front of women in the prison, and the Pentagon has tape of it. The speech was first reported in a New York [...]

Startling statistics in Clive Cook’s column on education reform in FT:

Forty years ago, the report points out, the US was a leader in high-school graduation rates. Today it ranks 18th out of 24 industrial countries. As recently as 1995, the US was tied for first place in college graduation rates. Ten years later it had [...]

Probably the only thing funnier than Wanda Syke’s joke about Rush Limbaugh last night is watching uptight commentators analyze its seriousness.
Regardless of the level of the contrived outrage, Wanda Sykes must be loving this. If you’re a comedian, there’s gotta be nothing better than getting a huge laugh, a national headline, and a television debate [...]

I guess if you’re going to write a sinister and inflammatory headline, you might as well sell it with the most evil picture of all time.

President Obama roasted all of Washington at the Correspondent’s dinner last night.

Wanda Sykes, though, stole the show. Half her jokes won’t be allowed to be replayed on TV, so make sure you watch it here.

Number of Americans that have died of swine flu this year: 1
Number of Americans that have died of regular flu this year: 13,000

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