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Potpourri

  • This can’t be good:

    The North-West Passage – the sea route running along the Arctic coastline of North America, normally perilously clogged with thick ice – is nearly ice-free for the first time since records began.

  • Atrios, on Miss Teen South Carolina’s blond moment:

    I don’t know if she’s dumb as a stone or if she just understandably had a bit of a brain fart. . . Either way she’s just a young woman whose worst moment wasn’t appreciably worse than the regular outbursts of our commander in chief.

    Sadly true.

  • Via TPM, this Seinfeld clip seems particularly relevant. Good thing Elaine didn’t have a wide “stance.”