Weekend reading…

After you get home from the HK on J march and rally this Saturday, you may want to spend some time checking out these entertaining and/or informative blog posts from the week gone by. Note: you'll have to read to the bottom to get the image reference at right.

Mark Binker at Capital Beat has a couple of laugh (or at least chuckle) out loud pieces.

First there's this post about Howard Coble's enormously influential and well-timed endorsement of Mitt Romney. It occurred about 72 hours before the Mittster called it quits.

Then there's this one about the junior Senator from North Carolina's exalted new position as "Co-Chair of the Senate Boating Caucus."

Anglico at BlueNC had a typically prolific week. Highlights included a couple of attacks on the Pope empire and a well-aimed barb at Bob Orr for his debate comments about "market solutions" to the health care mess.

Under the Dome broke a couple of stories (at least it was the first place I saw them) including Bob Orr's endorsement of John McCain (wow, that was courageous on Bob's part), Jack Hawke's fade off into the sunset at Civitas, and Pat McCrory's attempt to be a "green" candidate.

Public Policy Polling has their latest numbers on various Democratic primaries. Perhaps the most interesting #: Obama 42%, Clinton 40%.

And lastly, for folks with strong stomachs there's the Civitas and Locke blogs.

Go here to read Max Borders' comparison (we're not making this up) of water boarding (what he terms "unpleasant interrogation") to the times his "older step brother sat on top of my head with a pillow." This may explain some things.  

Click here to read defenses of payday lending, attacks on efforts to control tuition increases and, yikes!!, a very old film of Ronald Reagan delivering what Mitch Kokai calls "the speech." It doesn't appear to be the one (I guess it was 20 years too early) in which Reagan calls for amensty for undocumented immigrants.