Tuesday link dump: Firefighting

• Here's a wonderful photo of Jeff Greene partying with Mike Tyson.
• The forthcoming anti-"Ground Zero" "Mosque" ad that will appear on MTA buses has a deliberate factual misstatement on it.
• Were attacks on Elena Kagan echoes on old attacks on "Jewish Bolshevism"?
• Obama did the thing again where he calls on Congress to pass something after it's already a done deal.
• While Obama sat around wondering whose ass to kick as oil spilled into the Gulf of Mexico, Russian superman Vladimir Putin hopped in a plane and personally put out some fires.
• Former Mexican President Vincente Fox calls for Mexico to legalize drugs, which would probably help their situation a lot, though not as much as it would help them if we legalized drugs.

By Alex Pareene

Alex Pareene writes about politics for Salon and is the author of "The Rude Guide to Mitt." Email him at apareene@salon.com and follow him on Twitter @pareene

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