Today's Assignment

First up, Maha takes on The Vegetable and asks the right question: Why can't we throw cousin Maggie down the stairs?

Digby discusses the raging sexism in the press coverage of Hillary, about which Amanda is mad as hell, by God, and she's not gonna take it anymore!

Anti-abortion nazis try new tactics. Added: Scott gives them their due.

And finally - well, for now - TBogg has the BEST EVER picture of the Democratic front-runners!

Take notes, because the test is 50% of your grade.

Extra Credit: "Military Officials Disagree on Impact of Surge". You don't say. Money quote:

Macgregor says that people are desperate for success.

"They want to believe that we have done something positive for the population of Iraq. That we are helping them to become something positive," he says. "The thing that worries me most of all is what happens over the next 12 to 24 months in Iraq. Could we not have made matters worse in the long term? Are we not actually setting Iraq up for a worse civil war than the one we have already seen?"

Iraq can be seen as a conflict temporarily frozen.