I had big problems sleeping last night, which I will try not to attribute to the decision to watch last night’s highly bathetic episode of The Walking Dead, which followed the formula: weep and fret, weep and fret, kill a few zombies, weep and fret.
In any event, here are some midday, er, bites:
* The Intercept, the new digital magazine fronted by Glenn Greenwald, launched today. I’d offer a link, but the site’s down; don’t know whether the culprit is heavy traffic or technical miscalculations or hostile hackers.
* Kind of shocking that former Missouri football star Michael Sam’s revelation that he’s gay is creating such shock-waves. Like other pioneers, he’ll be followed by many others, I suspect. And if cowardly NFL teams down-grade his draft status, they’ll deserve every bit of flack they get.
* Reid mulls another round of filibuster reform. You know where I stand on that one: filibuster delenda est!
* TNR’s Jonathan Cohn takes on the conservative argument that ACA leaves too many people uninsured.
* WaPo’s Sudarsan Raghavan writes horrific account of communal violence in the Central African Republic.
And in non-political news:
* Attention arm-chair (or more precisely desk-top) theologians: Dead Sea Scrolls go digital.
As we break for lunch and I hope for a power-nap, here’s Bowie with another cut from Ziggy Stardust: “Hang On To Yourself.” We move like tigers on vaseline.
