Not so much, etc.

Scattershooting while wondering what ever happened to Keith Owens:

The difference between Obama and Jesus: Jesus knew how to build a cabinet.

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Jim Cramer fights back at Jon Stewart: “President Obama’s team, unlike Bush’s team, demonstrates a thinness of skin that shocks me. . . . Are they really that blind to the Great Wealth Destruction they are causing with their decisions to demonize the bankers, raise taxes for the wealthy, advocate draconian cap-and-trade policies and upend the health care system? Do they really believe that only the rich own stocks? What do they think we have our retirement accounts in, CDs? Where did they think that the money saved for college went, our mattresses?”

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Probably the most amazing thing I’ve ever heard: 10th President John Tyler, born in 1790, has two grandsons still living. When they talk about going back a generation or two, they mean business!

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A fact that doesn’t usually see the light of day, from the NYT: “Restrictions on embryonic stem cell research originated with Congress, which, each year since in 1996, has forbidden the use of federal financing for any experiment in which a human embryo is destroyed.”

Raise your hand if you had been led to believe it was Bush instead of Congress.

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Some lesser-known NBA nicknames.

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Democrats have hit on a new form of stimulus: steal the credit card numbers of a political opponent’s donors and use them to make fraudulent charges. Don’t look at me, I wasn’t the one who believed in this kind of change.

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Former teammate Mark Madsen on the Shaq flopping kerfuffle, the ultimate man bites dog story: “I played with Shaq for three years in Los Angeles and while I did see the big fella sacrifice his body and step in and take charges, I never once saw him flop in those three years. And the funny thing is that almost every team in the NBA tries to flop against Shaq. There are probably even coaches that teach their centers and forwards to try to flop on Shaq. So, this whole commotion about whether or not Shaq's play against Dwight Howard was a flop is so funny because everyone in the league tries to flop on Shaq and Shaq never flops back.”

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A former detainee at Guantánamo Bay has become the Taliban’s chief operations officer in southern Afghanistan. Good thing we’re planning on closing Guantanamo, so this kind of thing will become more common…you might even say it will explode.

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Noted fabulist Seymour Hersh has set tinfoil hatters atwitter with his tale of Dick Cheney hit squads (apparently not very good, since there are no known victims). Reason has a post on his loose relationship with the truth, with some classic comments. My favorite: “Sy Hersh has predicted 8 of the last 0 American invasions of Iran.”

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From one crook (Blagojevich) to another (Quinn) in the Illinois statehouse: Illinois Gov. to Propose 50% Increase in State Income Tax