NPR reports today that OK Sen. Tom Coburn still plans to actively block the Zagroda Bill, aka the 9/11 Responders Bill - the legislation Jon Stewart has dubbed "the least we can do/no-brainer act of 2010."

Now we get the same word on the US Chamber of Commerce. (Warning: the following may induce vomiting.)

Aside from the rather obvious possibility that he is being framed by a conspiracy of governments, fronted by Sweden, the sex assault charges against Julian Assange fall right into that confusing area of sexual guilt/innocence that Angie and I have discussed many times. As a basis of international controversy, the allegations are fairly nuanced. Something like: subject has consensual sex with first woman, who at some point decides she does not want to continue, apparently making it nonconsensual from that moment on. Then, in a different episode, subject has consensual sex with second woman, but later in bed he starts again but she says no, making it nonconsensual. There are more details, but different reports give conflicting details.

You can add Capt. Chesley "Sully" Sullenberger to the growing rumble of discontent against invasive and potentially health-threatening TSA searches.