Beauty Jackson - Lord of the Nuva Rings;

emptywheel - tithing pre- or post-tax might be among the reasons we don't have Romney's returns;

naked capitalism - Gawker releases possibly-important cache of Romney/Bain/Cayman documents;

Taylor Marsh - Obama to buck precedent, make some noise during Mittens' coronation;

Towleroad - Dan Savage/Brian Brown dinner-table debate pretty much a Bible-thumping waste of time (per Dan's husband).

blogenfreude blogs at stinque.com and thinks Akin is in it to win it (read "lose it").