May 7 MISCELLANY!

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• Obama's first major ad buy should start showing now in nine swing states. Watch it below (or go here). It basically paints the narrative the President wants to set, encapsulated by "OBL is dead and GM is alive."
  
  
  
  
  


• What's holding up job growth? Democrats say it's Republican obstructionism. Republicans say it's threats that Democrats will raise taxes. Businesses say that it's because banks aren't willing to loan anyone money to expand. Meaning, in effect, that the extreme caution of 2008 is still hurting us.


• So, the Pentagon looked into it, and came to the conclusion that government whistleblowers are subject to severe reprisals. Gee, no kidding. Do we file this under "O" for "Obvious" or "B" for "Bradley Manning?"


• Take two minutes to help save the Internet here.


• Joe Biden on marriage equality here. TL;DR: he has no problem with it.


• Every Major's Terrible, to the tune of "The Modern Major General," here. (The original here)


• Thanks to plexiglass, a moment of horror and natural selection becomes a moment of mirth and family bonding here.