Too busy to actually write anything substantive, so I’ll just post some of the stuff I’ve been reading lately:

• Richard Cohen says it’s tough out there for white guys. Turns out affirmative action is still, yes, a good thing.
• Evidently the internet is about to change forever.
• Conservatives don’t know that Stephen Colbert is making fun of them, thus proving my maxim that it is impossible to be both funny and right-wing.
• Ross Douthat wrote a great first column, examining what would’ve happened if Dick Cheney had run in 2008.
• Jon Huntsman starts to staff up. He could be just what the doctor ordered for the GOP.
• The folks at RedState are having a hard time adjusting. They mount a full-throated defense of Jeff Sessions’ racism, then wonder why African-Americans aren’t smart enough to vote for Republicans.
• Michael Steele and the entire conservative movement have decided that they are adamantly against empathy. Guess that’s not one of the “values” that matters to “values voters.”
• And finally, some fun: