And so it's Super Bowl Sunday... at last. It's been a pleasure being here this past week. Thanks as always to Mike for the wonderful opportunity and to Blue Gal for being such a kind editor. I invite you all to visit my place, The Reaction. We have a fantastic team of bloggers, if I do say so myself, and we'd love to see you there.

Lippmann's Ghost: Glenn Beck is crazy. And he's also one of the Democrats' best friends.

Muddy Politics: Republicans can't handle change. And they're proving to be stalwart defenders of the Bush-era status quo, including by trying to find any way possible to destroy the Affordable Care Act.

Connecting the Dots: It's Reagan's centennial birthday today. And conservatives continue to mythologize him as a way to pretend the decline of the American Empire isn't real.

Mario Piperni: The Amazonian rain forest is dying. Inhofe and the rest of the global warming deniers probably think that's a hoax, too.

Go Steelers!!!!! (Though I'll pick the Packers to win, 34-20.)

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Batocchio of Vagabond Scholar will be taking over from here. Please send your tips to batocchio9 AT yahoo DOT com.

I hope you're all watching the world unfold on Al Jazeera. It puts our news media to shame.

Reverend Manny: It was a pro-democracy "day of departure" in Egypt yesterday. But, with Obama's blessing, will Mubarak just be replaced by a different tyrant?

P.M. Carpenter: As the crisis in Egypt rages, no one's listening to America anymore. Is that good or bad?

Pisani Canadian Adventures: Obama met Canadian PM Harper. Not that Americans were paying any attention.

South by Southwest: Vilsack and Sebelius released new nutritional guidelines this past week. It's about time for the low-salt future.

And over at The Garlic: Go away, Rummy. Farewell, Maria Schneider.

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Is it the weekend yet? I've been a Steelers fan my whole life and I can't even begin to describe my anxiety.

Pruning Shears: The economic aspects of the Egyptian uprising.

The Democratic Daily: Appalling animal cruelty in British Columbia.

David E's Fablog: On Sarah Palin and chicken sandwiches.

Fruits and Votes: When autocrats are in trouble, they unleash the goons.

Finally, Blogroll Amnesty Day (B.A.D.) is coming up this weekend and the week-long celebration is starting today. The idea is to celebrate smaller blogs, those that don't get much traffic but that deserve more. So not, say, HuffPo, but most of the blogs that are featured in Mike's Blog Round Up day after day. Read them, not just once but frequently. Show them some love. There's a lot of awesomeness beyond the A-listers. (Thank you to Skippy and of course Jon Swift, whom we all miss.)

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Here are some great posts for your reading pleasure. Then let's talk movies!

Thump and Whip: We've all had more than enough of Glenn Beck, but he's still a leading voice on the right, now direly predicting evil progressive conflagration all over the map.

Whammer's Blog: Breaking news! CNN is incredibly lame. And Piers Morgan just makes it all so much worse.

Kiko's House: What's happening in Tunisia and Egypt is the second wave of the Arab liberation movement. Israeli intransigence isn't helping.

Newshoggers: 2010 was the worst year yet for civilian deaths in the Afghan War. Thanks for the dishonest happy talk, Mr. President.

If you're in an Oscar sort of mood, with the nominees announced last week, what's your pick for most undeserving Best Picture winner of the past 20 years? I'll go with the awful Slumdog Millionaire, though Titanic and Braveheart aren't far behind. Any other thoughts on 2010 cinema?

Speaking of movies, my friend Edward Copeland takes a look at few of the best documentaries of 2010: Restrepo, The Tillman Story, and Client 9: The Rise and Fall of Eliot Spitzer.

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So long, Mubarak. Your tyranny will not be missed. Now on to the links:

Bark Bark Woof Woof: Another child of a prominent conservative comes out for marriage equality. Well done, Barbara Bush.

Prairie Weather: Afghanistan is a deeply corrupt country. Just take a look at Kabul Bank.

The Existentialist Cowboy: As you know, big corporations control the media. Here's a brief history of how it happened.

PBH Blog: Want America to have a healthy future? Cutting the military budget would help.

The Fourth Branch: The conservative case against the Affordable Care Act is weak. But what if the law doesn't survive judicial scrutiny?

Happy Groundhog Day!

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Content-wise, it's a hodgepodge of mishmash today. Quality-wise, these are all worth your while:

More on the confusing situation in Egypt. (Personally, I think Obama is doing a fine job handling the situation, though it was good to see Hillary come out strongly for "real democracy." It's long past time for America, which has enabled Mubarak-style tyranny for a long, long time, to promote its own purported principles.) Wait, the Saudis and Israelis are in bed with Mubarak? What gives?

With the GOP now apparently (and enthusiastically) the party of rape, how is it possible there are any Republican women?

Another partisan conservative judge comes down against the Affordable Care Act. Such stupid, misguided right-wing activism. What else is new?

From Distributorcap, an outstanding piece on the sad, horrible plight of migrant farm workers, recalling The Grapes of Wrath.

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Hi everyone. It's great to be back at C&L. Taking the baton from Jon Perr, I'll be here doing the round-up through Super Bowl Sunday. With many of the world's eyes focused on Egypt, let's get started...

Taylor Marsh: The U.S. has enabled Mubarak's authoritarian regime. So what will Obama do now?

Brilliant at Breakfast: B. Obama v. H. Clinton. Will the Obama Administration rethink its foreign policy priorities?

No More Mister Nice Blog: Will the supposedly rebellious Teabaggers fall in line with pro-Mubarak Republicans?

The Duck of Minerva: What would a new Egyptian government mean for the U.S.?

Comments from Left Field: Was Condi Rice's State Department behind the Egyptian uprising?

And from Capt. Fogg at Human Voices: With revolution at hand, what about Egypt's timeless antiquities?

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So that's it. I'm done. My two weeks have come to an end. Alas.

I'd like to thank Mike for the wonderful opportunity, Blue Gal for being such a helpful and friendly editor, and, of course, John for everything he does here at C&L. It's been a pleasure, and I've enjoyed not just being able to link to some of my favourite blogs but to get to know many other great ones that will now be regular stops for me.

You're always welcome to come and check out my place, too, where I've got a great team of bloggers doing some fantastic commentary on (mostly) U.S. politics. Like this post -- and I say this as a proud liberal -- defending socialism.

Distributorcap NY: Yet more arrogance, stupidity, and revisionism from the punditocracy, this time Pelosi-related.

The Debate Link: Glenn Beck and the disgusting anti-Semitic attacks on George Soros.

Writes Like She Talks: The diminishing marginal returns on bashing Obama.

The Rap Sheet: James Bond turns 90. (This is a really good crime-fiction blog edited by journalist and author J.Kingston Pierce, who also runs the excellent political blog Limbo.)

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I'll now hand off to Don Davis of the very amusing Satirical Political Report, who will be your guide for the next little while. E-mail tips to him at satiricalpolitical AT gmail DOT com.

Well, just two more of these, including this one, before I have to hand back the reins of power. I assure you, this little stint at C&L is corrupting me absolutely. In a good way.

Take My Country Back: No, Howard Kurtz, Olbermann and Hannity are not the same. Sorry to disrupt your dishonest Beltway narrative.

Liberal Values: Wait... President Obama actually likes capitalism? I thought he was a fascist-socialist-progressive Kenyan-Indonesian anti-American tyrant.

Connecting the Dots: The last Bush binge, from alcohol to power and piety, now on display all over the media.

The Existentialist Cowboy: Think Abu Ghraib was bad? Check out the proto-fascist Texas prison system.

Do you smell the whiff of nostalgia? No, not back to some utopian right-wing past where white Christian men were in charge and women and "colored" people were in their submissive place, but back to a time when music was, well, good? At Analogue Adventures, my good friend, music aficionado, and vinyl enthusiast Robert Lawson has agonizingly put together his Top Ten Albums of the 1960s, 1970s, and 1980s. Be sure to register your disagreement, if you must. As for me... no Pink Floyd? What madness is this?!

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Alright, let's get right to it:

Mario Piperni: Self-serving conservative criticism of a clueless president. (Yes, that would be Dubya.)

The Democratic Daily: Want serious solutions for containing the budget deficit? Get Russ Feingold involved.

His Vorpal Sword: Denying the will of the people in Alaska. And if Joe Miller gets his way, the Senate will just be that much more extreme and dysfunctional.

Shakesville: Statutory rape. Bullying. Suicide. This is one awful (and sadly revealing) story.

And from a new blogger (and a wonderful new contributor at my place), R.K. Barry, a man with a wealth of hands-on political experience up in my neck o' the woods...

Lippmann's Ghost: Obama, "elitism," and anti-intellectualism. Can he truly connect with the American people?

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