Notes from ’round the InterTubes…
Krugman gloats:
Seriously, isn’t it amazing just how impressive the people being named to key positions in the Obama administration seem? Bye-bye hacks and cronies, hello people who actually know what they’re doing.
archcrone begs to differ:
For myself, I had no illusions that I would be writing this post, asking the Obama administration where are the progressives, I just didn’t expect to have to write it this early on. I did expect at least a “token” progressive to be part of the Obama administration, but, apparently progressives aren’t …

Andrew Sullivan, who’s taken the anti-Prop 8 bull by the horns, has an amazing series of posts over at the Daily Dish on the protests and demonstrations that sprang up nationwide today.
The fact is that the passage of Proposition 8 caught a not insignificant chunk of the LGBT rights community — myself and this blog included — completely napping. It’s not that there weren’t voices of warning, it’s that a lot of us were so focused on the top prize that we didn’t heed them. Hence the genuine surprise on …