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It is Wildcard Saturday in the NFL! First up are today's games; i will update later today with Sunday's games. Oh, and due to dismal performance by my boy, it is no longer the "National Favre League", but is just back to NFL. Sadness. Dirty Birds at Red Birds and Colts at Bolts.

Maybe the most appropriate way to deal with the Burris appointment is to refuse to seat him on any committees.

The fire sale by the Bush Administration in a last gasp to coddle corporate polluters, crooks and malefactors (i.e. friends and family) is on at the Department of Justice. The Justice Department has reached more than a dozen business-related settlements since the presidential election, with more in the pipeline for January, prompting lawyers and interest groups to assert that companies are seeking more favorable deals before Obama gets inaugurated.

Earlier this morning, Jane wrote a fantastic post, "Burris and Blago: What Happens Now?", that lays out most all of the concerns with the obstreperous position taken by Harry Reid and the Democratic leadership. I would like to follow up on a couple of legal points inherent in the discussion. The Illinois Secretary of State Jesse White doesn't have the power to refuse certification of Burris and Harry Reid is making an ass of himself in belligerently fighting Burris.

I'm looking forward to Vicki Iseman's defamation suit against the NYT, if only because we're bound to see an argument over whether or not Iseman asked McCain to share a blankie with her.

Well, it looks like Blagojevich is intent on playing governor for a little while longer.

This report from MSNBC is almost sublimely ironic: U.S. prosecutors want a Miami judge to sentence the son of former Liberian President Charles Taylor to 147 years in prison for torturing people. Huh. Go figure. I wonder who will prosecute the denizens of the Bush Administration for the same acts?

Fitz says that Blago can't subpoena Rahm because Rahm's testimony "overlaps" with his ongoing investigation. What does that mean?

This is the last week of the regular season in the National Favre League, and for those teams headed to the playoffs, or trying desperately to get into the playoffs, we have some key games on tap. Here is the rundown.

It has been quite the rage on teh progressive internets to discuss trains, trans and super trains. Atrios is the King of all Train Media. Yglesias has climbed on board, and now even a dyed in the wool California suburban guy like Kevin Drum is jawing about them, although he seems to have differing views on short haul commuter (for) than long haul passenger (against for financial reasons).