Yesterday I did my housework chores and installed a new plugin here called sendlove.to. It recognizes famous people in my articles and gives you an opportunity to vote them up or down on a national network and to make comments about them in addition to the comments here. To see it in action open the comments in any article. I found a bug early this morning. It interfered with our nested indents. I’ll report it. I am current on replies, but exhausted from missing sleep to track Wisconsin. Tomorrow, I’m hiding.
Jig Zone Puzzle:
Today it took me 3:18 (average 4:54). To do it, click here. How did you do?
Short Takes:
From TPM: An offshoot of the South Florida Tea Party called "Tea Party In Space" is looking to break apart the government’s socialist takeover of the final frontier.
Andrew L. Gasser launched Tea Party In Space [InsaniTEA delinked] in June as a way to "bring fiscal responsibility" into the space program, he told TPM Tuesday. He called the group, which was formed in conjunction with the South Florida Tea Party, the first "issue-specific" tea party in the country.
In matters pertaining to outer space and space cadets, Teabaggers may have a natural advantage.
From Think Progress: Tom Delay Wants a Government Shut Down Next Month
Doing too much harm is never enough for them.
From Reuters: A U.S. regulator sued Goldman Sachs Group Inc (GS.N), accusing the bank of violating federal and state law by selling risky mortgage-backed securities to two credit unions that later failed.
The National Credit Union Administration is seeking more than $491 million of damages related to the sale of about $1.18 billion of securities, according to the agency and its lawsuit filed Tuesday in the U.S. district court in Los Angeles.
Keep those lawsuits coming!
Cartoon:
Investors piled out of stocks and into a few "safe havens," such as gold and Treasury bonds. The appetite for Treasury bonds suggests that the Standard & Poor’s downgrade has not shaken investors’ faith in U.S. bonds. 
Will S&P’s controversial decision to downgrade the country’s bond rating — and its explicit 
The downgrade of the United States government’s credit rating by Standard & Poor’s is almost sure to increase pressure on a new Congressional “supercommittee” to mute ideological disagreements and recommend a package of deficit-reduction measures far exceeding its original goal of at least $1.5 trillion, lawmakers said Sunday.
Houston’s biggest gathering on Saturday didn’t see national television news crews. It didn’t draw out protestors. It didn’t spark its own Twitter handle. And the event — which attracted an 
House Budget Chairman Paul Ryan (R-WI) said he is open to revenue increases as part of a deal to reduce the deficit today, seemingly shifting positions from the hardline opposition his party has maintained against revenue growth. Ryan said on Fox News Sunday that he would be open to a deal that containes [sic] $3 or $4 in spending cuts for every $1 in revenue increases if it came through a major reform of the tax code and was large enough. Host Chris Wallace asked if Ryan would be open such hypothetical deal if he were sitting on the joint super committee created by the deal to raise the debt ceiling. Ryan responded, “yes”…
The right wing pundits and tea party operatives are trying to cover for all the heat they took for their outrageous behavior during the HCR debate and their ugly tea party town halls where spitting and violence took center stage so they have been trying to come up with a typical false equivalence narrative to offset it. 