Monday link dump: Act without words

Lazy Michele Bachmann, D.C.'s Cockroach problem, and a bored Florida legislator

By Alex Pareene

There’s a group of “several hundred current and former defense intelligence officials, private-sector contracting firms, lobbyists, Congressional staffers and Members of Congress” that meets every other month for off-the-record dinners and they literally call themselves “the Cockroaches” because they just never go away.
U.K. Liberal Democrat leader Nick Clegg’s hero? Samuel Beckett.
Hero Republican state senator caught looking at porn because he was bored with an abortion bill debate.
You are not allowed to use a billboard to point out that New York Mayor Michael Bloomberg is arresting more people for marijuana possession than any of his predecessors.
Minnesota embarrassment and congresswoman Michele Bachmann is spending more on her staff than ever before. Also many of them are simultaneously receiving money for working on her reelection campaign! Also she doesn’t actually do anything because she’s too busy appearing on TV to vote or sit on committees.
Oh, this looks good. “The Nation magazine has obtained an audio recording of a recent, private speech” by Blackwater owner Erik Prince.