The dangers of bone-headed beliefs  —  Surely it's time for climate-change deniers to have their opinions forcibly tattooed on their bodies.  —  Not necessarily on the forehead; I'm a reasonable man.  Just something along their arm or across their chest so their grandchildren could say, “Really?

More Weiner Messages to Young Girls?  Evidence the Media Was Duped into Dropping the Investigation  —  There are new reasons to question whether Rep. Anthony Weiner sent DMs to young girls besides Gennette Nicole — and whether he sent Nicole more flirtatious DMs than just that one picture.

When a Nobel Prize Isn't Enough  —  LAST October, I won the Nobel Prize in economics for my work on unemployment and the labor market.  But I am unqualified to serve on the board of the Federal Reserve — at least according to the Republican senators who have blocked my nomination.  How can this be?

Vouchercare Is Not Medicare  —  What's in a name?  A lot, the National Republican Congressional Committee obviously believes.  Last week, the committee sent a letter demanding that a TV station stop running an ad declaring that the House Republican budget plan would “end Medicare.”

Palin Fans Trying to Edit Wikipedia Paul Revere Page  —  Man, you've gotta almost admire the sheer blind dedication of Sarah Palin's wingnut acolytes.  —  Now they're trying like crazy to edit the Wikipedia page for “Paul Revere” to make it match Palin's botched version of history.

How Bad Is The Employment Picture?  This Bad  —  Via Business Insider, it's been called the scariest jobs chart you'll ever see, and every month it gets updated it just looks worse.  —  In other words, we are in the worst jobs recession since the Great Depression and we've just recently reached …

Candidates Fighting For The Conservative Heart And Soul In 2012 (The Note)  —  Nearly every major declared or potential Republican presidential candidate made a pilgrimage to an annual conference of social conservatives in Washington, DC over the weekend to pitch themselves to an important bloc of voters.

Filed from Kabul: Gates tells troops they'll be in his thoughts and prayers for rest of his life - NO SIGNS AFGHANISTAN WAR IS WINDING DOWN: Commanders say next 6 months are critical  —  BREAKING: The DNC's Hari Sevugan joins StudentsFirst (Michelle Rhee, founder and CEO) …

Universities ‘complacent’ over Islamic radicals, Theresa May warns  —  The Home Secretary has criticised universities for their “complacency” in tackling Muslim extremism as she prepares to publish the Government's updated strategy for countering Islamic radicalism.

Syrian opposition: Anti-Israel rioters paid $1,000  —  Protestors at northern border promised $1,000 reward by Assad's regime, Reform Party of Syria claims; Israeli officials: Damascus encouraged rioters.  Syria says IDF killed 23 people, wounded 350; army says figures inflated  —  Ynet

Chronic unemployment worse than Great Depression  —  The unemployed have, on average, remained unemployed longer than in the 1930s; Employers wary of job gaps in resumes  —  There is an unfortunate adage for the unemployed: The longer folks are out of a job, the longer it takes them to find a new one.

Stupid art is objectively pro-Nazi  —  Tell me: How could the French government countenance this art installation, which manages to be both juvenile and deeply insulting at the same time? : … I ask you: So, would the artist prefer that the Allies had refrained from committing any icky violence …