Posted 5:57 AM by Scoobie Davis

Quick Takes
As an Angelino, I find it especially funny that the Norah Vincent is still seething over being busted by Jim Capozzola (who is the opposite of a blowhard) for plagiarism (click here for Jim’s rebuttal). On the topic of blowhards, since Rush recently made a blatently racist comment (scroll down to 12/18), I think an e-mail to Howard Kurtz for defending this hatemonger is in order: kurtzh@washpost.com. Barney Gumble has a content-analysis study that reveals the overrepresentation of right-wing think tanks on C-SPAN; I await an article on HMO’s by Dr. Nick Riveria. Anthony York’s article in Salon on George W. Bush’s coziness with Confederates is another reason to get Salon Premium. Buy my friggin’ video—it’s entertaining and your purchase will keep me blogging.