As Sarah Palin's "bus" tour rolls on, journalists are beginning to identify her as the leader of a new kind of populism. But this movement really just enshrines another elite.

• Lindsay Lohan is speaking out about her dad. "I hate him so much," she told Gossip Cop. And:

Barack Obama can list the real issues facing our country: health care reform, a shitty economy, climate change and a bankrupt government program for auto trade-ins, for starters. But, still, all anyone wants to talk about is beer and birthers.

This Crappy Hour, the HuffPo's Jason Linkins and I torture one another with Lou Dobbs slashfic, make tortured confessions to the sounds of Barney the Dinosaur, and discuss GOP career suicides related to the Obama birther movement.

• In a 5-4 ruling today, the Supreme Court has (again) decided that the prisoners at Gitmo deserve some semblance of the rights afforded everyone else imprisoned in this country, like the right to protest to a judge the fact that they've been held for 6 years without charges. In his dissent, Justice Antonin Scalia…

CNN ruddy-cheeked-blusterer in chief Lou Dobbs has found a new victim of the War on the Middle Class being waged by Indian call center employees, H1-B engineers and Bill Gates.....