Monday link dump: Old Blackwater, keep on rolling

• A CBS/Vanity Fair poll finds that Americans are largely fat birthers.
• Blackwater's back! Erik Prince is on CNBC, they're bidding on Army contracts, and the CIA is basically forced to hire them for some reason.
• Jan Brewer believes that most of the people who cross the US-Mexican border are drug mules. John McCain doesn't necessarily disagree. He also has an untrue opinion about the number of kidnappings in Phoenix.
• South Carolina's looking into where Democratic party hero Alvin Greene got his $10,400.
• Steve Forbes finds one of the upsides to Robert Byrd's death.
• Rand Paul: not willing to say how old the Earth is!
• Michele Bachmann is keynoting the 2010 BirtherCon Expo-Rama this September.
• Alert Jan Brewer: "Illegal pinatas turn up on border...."

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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