washington is truly in recess mode. no flurry of weather-related twitter hashtags. that or the clever social media kids slept in.
Kathryn Jean Lopez
kathrynlopez
...then the thunderstorm hit and Hot Air's Ed Morrissey couldn't resist a comparison.
@kathrynlopez Those aren't lightning strikes. That's Obama's new energy source for the Volt.
EdMorrissey
EdMorrissey
Sure enough, DC (and Pourmecoffee) was back doing what it does best:
Judge rules gay
couples can wed beginning Aug. 18. Heterosexual CA couples have one week
to protect their marriages.
pourmecoffee
pourmecoffee
The American Propect's Adam Serwer made quips that could make Newt Gingrich spontaneously combust...
BREAKING: To celebrate prop 8 ruling, Justice Kagan announces plan for mass same sex marriages of illegal immigrants at Ground Zero Mosque
AdamSerwer
AdamSerwer
...while Slate's David Weigel contemplated the Catch-22 of the midterms...
Deep thought: In November, voters will replace a broken Senate with one that will filibuster everything.
daveweigel
daveweigel
... and Ezra Klein mused about more esoteric combinations of wonkery and pop culture.
Resolved: Gangster rap is the purest expression of Randian principles in America today.
Ezra Klein
ezraklein
And, yeah, CNN's Peter Hamby tweeted a reference within a reference.
casey affleck will play ben quayle in the film "Mr. Landers goes to Washington."
Peter Hamby
hambypCNN
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