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Swampland

Paging Doctor... Surgeon General?

Apparently, Obama wants to name CNN's talking-head neurosurgeon, Dr. Sanjay Gupta, as Surgeon General. Read more

Real Clear Politics

RNC Chair Candidates Debate

Yesterday marked the first time that all six announced candidates for chairman of the Republican National Committee were together in one room. Read more

World

The Middle East Blog

Gaza: Civilians Under Siege

Here are some snapshots of the evolving humanitarian crisis in Gaza. Read more

The China Blog

Zhang Ziyi Does It Again

Way back in the mists of time when this blog was launched one of our first posts was a picture of actress Zhang Ziyi canoodling with her western boyfriend at a L.A. Lakers game. Read more

Business & Technology

The Curious Capitalist

Moving from Gregg's Dubious Tax Math to Reich's Dubious Tax Language

The only controversial point here for anybody who has looked at the data is on payroll taxes. Read more

Work in Progress

Out of Work in Progress: My Final Post

In the summer of 2006, I went to my boss, TIME managing editor Rick Stengel, with a pitch. Read more

Nerd World

Nerd World Top 10: Portals to Other Worlds

Some days reality is just intolerably repugnant, and there isn't anything very interesting coming out of MacWorld, so you start looking around for an alternative. Read more

Entertainment

Tuned In

Paging Surgeon General Gupta?

Barack Obama to Name Dr. Sanjay Gupta Surgeon General: Onion headline or actual news? Read more

Looking Around

Let 'Em Fall?

When museums have fiancial meltdowns, shoud we treat them like Lehman Brothers and just let them collapse? Read more

Photos

White House Photo Blog

The hands of President-elect Barack Obama are seen as he speaks to the media following a meeting with members of his future cabinet and economic advisors at his transition office in Washington.View more

It's hard to remember back to 1996 but is this about the point in that campaign that they started eating themselves? Is this early for this kind of knifing in the back? For some reason I thought it would wait until after the debacle.

• - Posted by Paul on Swampland in response to Karen Tumulty's post on "Maverick or Rogue"