I didn’t even bother trying to write this yesterday.  What was the use?  For every four words written I would have tabbed over to the Times or Huffington Post to bite my nails and or shake my fist about what a smug jerk Boehner is.  It’s not like we didn’t see this coming though.  If you have any recall of the 1990’s this whole song and dance will feel eerily familiar.

Hey – at least McMahon lost.  And Rand Paul!  Oh wait…just kidding, he actually won.  Hey remember when that guy wanted to throw out the Civil Rights Act? Good times.

But I’m going to leave the political pontificating to the pros here on the Commons.  The hornets’ nest over at the Obama Presidency was relatively quiet this week with three great post.  There was some talk about the ‘Rally to Restore Sanity,’ some insightful work about Christine O’Donnell who thankfully did not ascend to power last night, and finally a blogger who wants to send all New Yorkers to Oklahoma.   As a successful Texan refugee I have no interest in setting foot back in Dixie thank you.  (Yeah yeah I know, Texas is only kind of the South, it’s kind of the Midwest too…yada yada)

Quote of the week on the blogs:

“…one cannot help but come to the conclusion that death is the least of our problems.”

And that wasn’t even on one of the politics blogs.

Moving right along –

Madlibrarian freaked everyone out by pointing us towards an article that pretty much proves you can’t hide.  It was bad enough when Facebook couldn’t figure out their own privacy policy, but hiring firms to sniff out people’s Social Security Number and home address is the pits.  Wont somebody save us from ourselves?  Boehner!

Helldriver popped up again.  This week was about Leviathans big and bigger.   My now long standing policy on Helldriver blogs is to not be cute and just let the blog speak for itself.  So here I am with sparklers in my hands trying to wave you folks over there.  Go!

We’ve been talking about Omeka for a long time now here on the Commons and Wiki Wrangler Scott Voth @Scottvoth posted this week that Omeka.net is now in beta!  If you don’t know what Omeka is you should so go take a look and play with it.  All the cool kids are doing it.

And speaking of elections, I’m sure you’ve all seen the news that our own Boone B. Gorges was made a BuddyPress Core Committer.  It’s actually kind of a drag because it means he gets to wear a special hat and we have to clean his apartment.  All the same we’re super proud of him and his contributions to both BuddyPress and the Commons.  If you’ve ever written in and needed something fixed on the site it was probably Boone that did the fixin’.  Congratulations!

Alright well now that everyone is up to speed on the blogs you might have missed last week I’m going to go back to drowning my sorrows.  Somewhere out there in the Arizona desert Jan Brewer is kicking over cacti in a powersuit and pumps demanding papers from anyone not practically tumescent.

But since I can’t leave you on such a gloomy note – here’s a crow that is best friends with a kitten:

[youtube]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gj57rI1_JX8[/youtube]

We can raise the level of academic discourse tomorrow.  Tonight it’s just kittens all the way down.