Tuesday link dump: Firefighting

Vladimir Putin takes matters into his own hands, Elena Kagan's Bolshevism, Obama's timing, and more Jeff Greene fun

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.

Vladimir Putin takes matters into his own hands, Elena Kagan's Bolshevism, Obama's timing, and more Jeff Greene fun