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April Fool’s, there is! Did I get you? April Fool’s on the Internet is awesome!<\/p>\n
\u2022 Speaking of April Fool’s jokes, apparently an Ellen Tauscher staffer got so upset at this joke post<\/a> about the Congresswoman marrying bin Laden that he put up a cease and desist in the comments<\/a>. Giving the post about eleventy-billion times more publicity than it would have had. Nice one, Jonathan Kaplan!<\/p>\n \u2022 Speaking of fools, Lisa Vorderbrueggen decides<\/a> that a Congressional race 3,000 miles away in New York has tons of significance to the upcoming race in CA-10. Why? Because a win there for Republicans would signal “voter backlash” to the Democratic agenda! Except, as Vorderbrueggen acknowledges, that seat has a 70,000 voter registration advantage for Republicans, while CA-10 has a 67,000 voter registration advantage for Democrats. So there’s no correlation at all. Never mind! <\/p>\n \u2022 As if California needed another debilitating hit to its agriculture industry, a manufacturing error at a processing plant in Terra Bella<\/a> has led to mass recalls<\/a> of pistachios, amid fears of salmonella poisoning. Fortunately, the economy is gangbusters in the Central Valley so this won’t have an impact.<\/p>\n \u2022 Dan Weintraub is gushing<\/a> about California Forward’s new co-chairman Bob Hertzberg. I think there are enough of these bipartisan fetishists to make a colony somewhere in Idaho called Broderville and let them all get along in centrist harmony. Think of how many journals of punditry would be published!<\/p>\n \u2022 William Bratton’s leadership as police chief of Los Angeles is seen as the cause for a continued drop in crime in the first quarter of 2009<\/a>, despite the bad economy. Which is great, but I want some answers about this Pro Publica report<\/a> on a 12,000-case backlog in testing DNA evidence in sexual assault cases. Surely with the drop in these crimes, we can eliminate this delay in justice.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" There is no open thread. April Fool’s, there is! Did I get you? April Fool’s on the Internet is awesome!<\/p>\n \u2022 Speaking of April Fool’s jokes, apparently an Ellen Tauscher staffer got so upset at this joke post<\/a> about the Congresswoman marrying bin Laden that he put up a cease and desist in the comments<\/a>. Giving the post about eleventy-billion times more publicity than it would have had. Nice one, Jonathan Kaplan!<\/p>\n \u2022 Speaking of fools, Lisa Vorderbrueggen decides<\/a> that a Congressional race 3,000 miles away in New York has tons of significance to the upcoming race in CA-10. Why? Because a win there for Republicans would signal “voter backlash” to the Democratic agenda! 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