Wow. This Robert Felner-John Deasy mess in Los Angeles is getting completely crazy. Once again, the Los Angeles Times accepts at face value the claim that Deasy’s degree from Felner was legitimate while asking zero questions to confirm. [LA Times]
John Boehner refused to go to the Tucson shooting memorial because had difficulty finding the right shade of bottle tan. It wasn’t just because he had a fancy RNC cocktail party to attend. [Wonkette]
Joe Lambert has decided not to run for Attorney General. So Jack Conway can stop sweating. [Bluegrass Politics]
Nationally, first-time jobless claims jumped by 35,000 last week. That’s a total of 445,000 new unemployment claims. Our economy is wonderful. [NPR]
297,000 more Americans were employed in December than in November. Still not good news. [The Economist]
Earlier today Democrat Stewart Gritton filed to run for Commissioner of Agriculture. It’s still Jamie Comer’s race to lose. [SoS & His Website]
Finding out what legislation costs taxpayers is usually impossible. But we’ve got an exception today. [Ralph Long]
Today Tim Longmeyer’s appointment as Secretary of the Personnel Cabinet became official with the Secretary of State’s office. I think his appointment was effective on January 8, though. [SoS]
You should probably check out Sarah The Quitter Palin’s top ten biggest failures. [HuffPo]
This will likely burn your eyes out. Lingerie-Wearing Boehner: ‘We Still Have A Very Pretty Speaker Of The House’ [The Onion]
Michelle Rhee has learned a lot about school reform. She’s launching a national movement to transform education. Obviously, we’ll ignore it in Kentucky. [Newsweek]
A national horsie show is moving to the Kentucky Horse Park. That’s pretty good news. [H-L]
4 responses so far ↓
1 Novena // Jan 13, 2011 at 7:43 pm
“Saved by B-Ball”
LA editor: “What’s all this fuss about Deasy?”
Cub reporter: “Something about an alleged fake degree from that notorious place in Kentucky.”
LA editor: “They certified he got it, right? So it must be legit.”
Cub reporter: “Yeah, they even had a blue-ribbon investigating committee.”
LA editor: “No need to explore it further. Isn’t that where Pitino coaches?’
Cub reporter: “Yeah, but that’s another story.”
2 Anonymous // Jan 13, 2011 at 9:35 pm
Conway is not running. His top folks are leaving in droves.
3 spinnikerca // Jan 13, 2011 at 10:30 pm
What you have to understand about Deasy is the guy he is replacing isn’t better. Right now people are just glad to see someone new.
4 FactFace // Jan 14, 2011 at 10:57 am
I see John Boehner forgot his self tanner for the photo shoot. When did he start working for Victoria Secret?
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