I was supposed to be writing up my impressions of the Iowa GOP Straw Poll today, and maybe getting ready for a day or two at the Iowa State Fair. But nooooooo!
Here are some remains of the day:
* Post-debate PPP poll in Iowa has Trump leading the pack but with iffy favorable ratios; Rand Paul really plunging, perhaps because of his association with the Kent Sorenson scandal that’s led to criminal charges for three of his bravos. Fiorina surges to double-digits.
* Rebecca Traister notes drily that women are already pretty aware of the “icky” mechanics of pregnancy and abortion, without help from the antichoice movement.
* At Ten Miles Square, Martin Longman goes deep to explain but urges people to place limits on the intraprogressive rift created by the conflict between Bernie Sanders supporters and the #blacklivesmatter movement.
* Speaking of Sanders, he gets first big union endorsement, from the National Nurses United.
* Shots fired at U.S. consulate in Ankara after Turkish authorities cracked down on Kurdish and ISIS militias.
And in non-political news:
* Arifacts of “Lost Colony” of Roanoke Island may have been found.
That’s it for Monday. Let’s close with a nice Tull medley from Dutch TV in 1999: a snippet of the title track from the anti-concept concept album Thick As a Brick, and then another track from the God-haunted side of Aqualung, “Locomotive Breath.” Towards the end there Ian looks like he’s channeling his inner Captain Beefheart.
Selah.
