Althouse is very very good today. She also links to a Times piece on telegrams that is terrific; sample:

The humorist Robert Benchley, arriving in Venice for the first time, cabled Harold Ross, editor of The New Yorker.

STREETS FULL OF WATER. PLEASE ADVISE.

Good read today. But Althouse is another of the PJ Media who censors all comments. Today only four of the 22 have been allowed to remain posted. Great group those PJs.

Hillary Care to be replaced by Hillary Bailout? This item was news this week:

Sen. Hillary Rodham Clinton told the United Auto Workers on Wednesday that she backs their efforts to launch a so-called Marshall Plan for the U.S. auto industry. Under the proposal the UAW has been touting to lawmakers this week, automakers that invest in fuel-efficient technologies, such as hybrid vehicles, could get federal aid to support retiree health benefits.

This is going to blow up in her face even bigger than her health care plot. Starting with the near 100,000 laid off workers collecting full pay forever for doing nothing. Collecting full health care for ditto. And the grossly overpaid and underworked remaining work force at both GM and Ford being paid by you and me. My bet? She'll say she was misquoted out of context by a Right Wing conspiracy hell bent on destroying her and her husband.