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February 24, 2012 6:11 PM Day’s End and Weekend Watch

By Ed Kilgore

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Before heading off to a Lenten Writers Group session, I’ll offer a few reads I didn’t get around to giving the fully bloggy treatment:

* In a new paper for the Progessive Policy Institute, Anka Lee explores America’s stake in stronger rights for China’s workers.

* Speaking of China, Monthly intern Siyu Hu notes today at College Guide that complaints from the majority Han ethnic group are leading to a review of university affirmative action policies in that country, just as the U.S. Supreme Court takes up the same subject.

* Mitt Romney, bless his little heart, brags that he and his wife own not one, not two, but four American vehicles, including “a couple of Cadillacs.”

* Hollywood Lobby poohbah Chris Dodd extends “olive branch” to Silicon Valley after industry’s drubbing on SOPA/PIPA.

* Herman Cain says he “loved” Pete Hoeckstra’s borderline-racist Super Bowl ad, calls for more like it.

* Rep. Darrell Issa to headline kickoff banquet at this weekend’s California Republican State Convention. Unclear whether it’s a stag dinner.

This weekend we are featuring a new Guest Blogger: Matthew Zeitlin, a very bright young man who has contributed to The Daily, The New Republic, and The Atlantic, and is currently a senior at Northwestern University. Please give him a warm welcome.

I’ll see you next week.

Selah.

Ed Kilgore is a contributing writer to the Washington Monthly. He is is managing editor for The Democratic Strategist, a senior fellow at the Progressive Policy Institute, and a Special Correspondent for The New Republic.
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Comments

  • chopin on February 24, 2012 6:51 PM:

    "...unclear whether it’s a stag dinner"
    Have no fear. Uncle Foster Freiss will be dispensing aspirin pills to the gals at the door.

  • JS on February 24, 2012 6:52 PM:

    I must say, I'm really digging the rotating "guest weekend blogger" shots. As long as the guests keep bringing it as I've seen to date, it seems like a great way for us readers to hear some new voices, and help develop the bench.

  • Kathryn on February 24, 2012 7:05 PM:

    Agreed JS and it gives Ed sometime for his life.

  • exlibra on February 24, 2012 7:08 PM:

    * Mitt Romney, bless his little heart, brags that he and his wife own not one, not two, but four American vehicles, including “a couple of Cadillacs.” -- Ed Kilgore

    Both Cadillacs are what Ann Romney drives. Does that make her a "double Welfare Queen"? Or is she both: a welfare queen and a ghetto drug lord?

  • Cha on February 24, 2012 11:26 PM:

    Could Herman Cain be anymore shit-for-brains-pandering-stupid.

  • Ron Byers on February 25, 2012 8:14 AM:

    Don't be ragging on Ann Romney. She has to have a Cadillac for her house in the California hood and another for her house in the Massachusetts hood. They are both SUVs. Mitt's two American cars are pretty classic. A lot of Americans have classic old cars in the garage, but if my wife gave me a vintage Mustang I would remember if she gave it to me for Christmas or my birthday. I wonder if Mitt drives his old cars?

    Please tell the Capcha folks that my keyboard doesn't do Hebrew.