Everything You Always Wanted To Know About Barney The Dog But Were Too Uninterested To Ask

• Here are the predictions of Igor Panarin, some sort of soothsaying Slavic gypsy, in which China, Mexico, and Canada all go halfsies on a ruined United States. [ Gawker ]

• How does Bush sleep at night? With Barney, the demonic hallucination-inducing terrier thing. [ GQ ]

• The Republican National Committee is going rogue! The RNC is holding leadership talent shows without involvement from the actual Republican Party. [ CNN Political Ticker ]

• The Governor of Oregon would like to institute a "mileage tax" instead of a gas tax, under which drivers would pay for roads based on how much they use them. Jonah Goldberg's panties are in such a twist over this idea that he will quote Macbeth for no conceivable reason. [ The Corner ]

• The MSM has declared that Caroline Kennedy is unfit to be a human being, let alone Replacement Hillary, because of the frequency with which she says "you know." [ Politico ]