I haven't heard from Bird Dog, so he's somewhere MIA in the Big Muddy of Connecticutt.

Report: Health law's costs continuing to grow

School Staffing Growing Significantly Faster Than Enrollment

Obama accepts 'Osama bin Laden' donations:No block to foreign money – not even from dead terrorists

The Revenue Demands of Public Employee Pension Promises

Jerry Brown urges student vote for tax measure, $250 refund : Payola for votes to increase taxes on parents and taxpayers

10 Worst States to Retire 2012 :Blues in Blue States

Is there a Benghazi media coverup? - Do Bears sh*t in the woods?

The new China looks too much like the old one : thugocracy -- Corruption in China Isn’t Just a Local Story :  “the annual 2011 Hurun report on the wealthiest Chinese reveals that the top seventy members of the National People’s Congress are worth a combined total of $89.8 billion; in contrast, the net worth of the top 660 U.S. officials is only $7.5 billion.”

Danger on the Mekong : thugocracy, also, to enrich the top guys.

Benghazigate: Chapter Two

UK academic union faces claims of ‘institutional anti-Semitism’ :Severe anti-Israel bias ‘makes Jews feel uncomfortable and unwelcome,’ lecturer charges in landmark tribunal

Diversity Festival Asked Danish Jews not to Display Israeli Flag

‘Apartheid’ poll: Errors that traveled round the world

The president who seems not to care

Here's entry number one in the fish stories competition for Hurricane Sandy: