Hallow'een Miscellany!

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• Despite the green shoots of progress being made in talks with Iran, Obama is still having a hard time convincing Congress to support his peace efforts. We can lay the lion's share of the blame on Las Vegas billionaire neocon Sheldon Adelson.


• According to Snowden, the NSA hacked the everloving shit out of Yahoo! and Google. But I'm sure it's just for the metadata, right? Right?


• Justin Raimondo calls out the hypocrites in government who were all for a massive security state, as long as the lenses weren't pointed at them.


• The Ed Show promises that Ed Schultz won't wear a costume if we ask him a question today. So, I asked him a question.


• Fourth-tier law school graduate and former White House Chief of Staff Bill Daley apparently pushed the idea of replacing Joe Biden with Hillary Clinton on the 2012 ticket. Color me unsurprised.


• The feared oncoming shortage of Sriracha sauce has been avoided - but, my sources tell me, not before panic buying set in!