To all of our readers (and really the staff, too), I’m starting today with an apology. For the last few weeks, I’ve been absent on the site, and that’s not what I was brought in to do. The Daily series is the staple of the site, and my falling behind is an all to often nuisance. That said, job changes, helping open a new magazine and family health issues have kept me aside, but that will no longer be the case.

In election news, it turns out that having lower opinion polling then Elliot Spitzer isn’t the kind of thing you can recover from, as David Patterson drops out of the race in New York.

Well, after the health care summit, there is one thing we can all agree on- President Obama is in charge of the Democrats for a reason.

In the category of things that would have been great ideas in 2008-9, the Treasury is considering a ban on foreclosures. The Treasury openly stated it was considering such an option, and would most likely be in the form of requiring 60 days of discussion over a modification program to keep the home.

In your occasional dose of Bat Shit Crazy, we have a frequent contributor, our old friend Mommar Gadhafi. This time, he’s calling for a jihad against the Swiss, for their recent banning of minarets, thus halting productions of any mosque in Switzerland. The law is vile, and whether you like it or not, everyone deserves religious freedom. Or it could be his grudge match with the Swiss over arresting that son of his a while back. Who can tell. But since it hasn’t aroused anger anywhere but Libya, I think we can focus on more important things, like suing people who don’t serve pork in their burgers, which is clearly a bigger deal.

I honestly just follow the guy for the sake of comedy.

Look out, you spoiled Tea Party folk! Prepare for your ultimate match, the the Coffee Party! With the generally ignorant liberal bias against corporatism looming in the background, the Coffee Party is posed to be of literally no threat to the Tea Party, because anyone with enough knowledge of corporate activity to take one down has taken a job with one to pay off at least that nasty college debt. Come on people. We have a party. Don’t think it’s progressive enough? Then don’t force through a guy who votes right of Hillary Clinton on most issues and blatantly avoids what his hardcore constituents want.