Speaking of the Presidency, Obama won Wisconsin in part by eating in to Clinton's base. Early voting started in Texas today, where students at historically-black Prairie View A&M walked seven miles to vote to protest the county's decision to offer only one early voting location. Good for them.

This is classic: the knuckle-draggers at The Corner are suggesting, in a round about way, that Obama is a communist half-Jew. Meanwhile, the ever-behind-the-curve Little Green Footballs alleges a cover up of Obama's Muslim roots. So, just so we're clear... Obama is obviously an atheistic, communist, half Jewish, half anti-semitic Jihadi something something. Seriously, you wonder how these people manage to dress themselves each day.

Lawrence Lessig is running for Congress! Here's Matt Stoller's take. Here's a Reihan Salam guest blogging for Andrew Sullivan. Other are pointing out this Wired item on the free culture fight and a more personal New York profile.

In other new media news, CNN producer fired for perblogging, then fires back at the network honchos via the same outlet. "We the Media," indeed. This reminds me of Meredith Vieria's apology after Jane Fonda said the word "cunt" on Today during a discussion of The Vagina Monologues: "It was a slip and obviously she apologizes and so do we," Vieira said. "We would do nothing to offend the audience, so please accept that apology." That an organization ostensibly dedicated to delivering "news" is dedicated in the first to not offending the viewer is at odds with their task.

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Don't forget that I'm returning to Dahlak on Friday night for the next installment of Fatback, a funk, soul, and Motown night that's been drawing some nice crowds and getting great word of mouth. I'll be debuting some dusty 7"s from deep in my crates. Come on out!