Above, Queen, Annie Lennox, and David Bowie perform Under Pressure. If we want to keep our democracy (little dee) we've gotta defeat access journalism.

Driftglass is not surprised at CBS hiring Mick Mulvaney.

Digby has Mulvaney's greatest hits ; maybe these were in his audition reel?

Zandar Versus the Stupid finds our social media is failing us, also/too.

News Corpse connects the dots.

Bonus Track: I'd like to invite these artists to Seattle to repair our broken sidewalks.

Round-up by Tengrain who blogs at Mock, Paper, Scissors. You can follow Tengrain on the Twitters, too. Send tips, requests, and suggestions to mbru@crooksandliars.com (with For MBRU in the subject line).