Tom Tomorrow ventures inside the right-wing noise machine. As I used to be a Pajamas Media member, back in the Stone Age,  I can vouch for the accuracy of his cartoon.

And Ta-Nehisi Coates picks up this delicious quote on Mitt Romney’s running-mate:

Some of Mr. Ryan’s aides said that as a candidate he had hoped to spend more time in poor urban areas to explain his theories of fighting poverty, and was restrained by his schedule.