Will the upcoming visit by Karzai be cancelled? Gibbs hints that it could be, if the Afghan leader keeps yapping like he has been. #WHBrief

Mother Jones editor David Corn drolly responds to a dire warning from the Heritage Foundation

I'm leaving work & heading to collectivized farm now. RT @davidfrum Heritage Found says US no longer a "free country." http://bit.ly/Mr0zq

The Mother Jones group feed adds a March Madness update worthy of 221B Baker Street

The Butler Almost Did It http://bit.ly/9tOv3f

The Nation blogger Greg Mitchell gives a new take on a 60s cinema classic

Wasn't this a scene in Barbarella? RT @Janefonda Me in the bath blogging from my blackberry http://bit.ly/dvpEBS

Matt Yglesias offers a sardonic take on the current D.C. heat wave

Projected high of ninety degrees today. Al Gore sure is a moron!

D.C. blogger Dave Weigel adds his two cents, perhaps more than we needed

That's probably enough biking in a suit for today.

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