Here’s a few Must Read articles for Sunday:
Have Conservatives Gone Mad? Mark Ambinder weighs in on a conversation started by Julian Sanchez and others about the de-tethering of conservatives from reality. Ambinder was once part of the cabal at The Note, ground zero of the Beltway Navel Gazing Narrative. Here you get to see how the dumb narratives get some traction — apparently reporters can’t find anyone else to take seriously. So the crazies get their platform. His quick suggestion that the cables may want to stake out a real-fact-checking mission is a good one.
Confederate History Month: Words of Steele dengre over at Balloon Juice does the world a favor and provides the definitive look at how the GOP came to be the place where racists are a comfortable part of the political coalition.
Fight On, Goldman Sachs! The always remarkable Frank Rich surveys the state of play with financial reform regulation and finds the GOP leadership bluntly working for the Wall Street interests.
10 Things You Don’t Know (or were misinformed) About the Goldman Sachs Case Barry Ritholz surveys the the details with some emphasis on ground truthing some of the media narrative.
Utility Decoupling: Giving Utilities Incentives to Promote Energy Efficiency Interesting article from the Progressive States Network looking at effort to decouple fixed utility costs from the costs of fuel on your bill.
Lewis Black visits the WSJ offices and tells them that he just does not get the Teajihadis (with bonus commentary on the iPad):
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