Day’s End and Night Watch

by Ed Kilgore
Politics

It’s very timely that SCOTUSblog just given Peabody Award for excellence in electronic media (first blog so honored).

Here are some final items of the day:

* At Slate Fred Kaplan brings us up to date on David Petraeus’ comeback.

* Hang onto your hats: President plans another dinner with Republican senators next month.

* McDonnell signs photo ID law to take effect in Virginia before 2014 elections.

* Tucson “conservatives” announce plan to distribute shotguns and ammo to solid citizens in high-crime areas. Love that law and order!

* At Ten Miles Square, Matthew Kahn reports on “Plan B” for 2014 Winter Olympics if climate change turns everything to slush.

* At College Guide, Daniel Luzer interviews UTEP president on best way to measure educational progress for low-income students.

And in non-political news:

* Energy drinks beginning to seriously challenge soda giants.

This morning’s Daylight Video stars, the Hombres, were actually an ephemeral offshoot of the southern beach music icons, Ronnie & the Daytonas (who happen to have been the first band I ever saw in concert, opening for Chad & Jeremy in LaGrange, Georgia in 1965). Here’s Ronnie’s big 1964 hit, in the great American idiom of singing about your car: “Little G.T.O.”

Selah.

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Ed Kilgore

Ed Kilgore is a political columnist for New York and managing editor at the Democratic Strategist website. He was a contributing writer at the Washington Monthly from January 2012 until November 2015, and was the principal contributor to the Political Animal blog.