Tuesday link dump: Third way to nowhere

• Jonah Goldberg wrote a book about how liberals are the real fascists and now he is sad that he, personally, "popularized the use of the term 'fascism' as an epithet."
• Michael Bloomberg will be president of nothing.
• Finally, the Christians behind the American Family Association have come against bears.
• Chris Christie's favorite part of working for the government was wasting government money on lavish hotel rooms and things like that.
• Alec Baldwin is not running for Congress.
• Media outlets -- even the BBC! -- still unwilling to call torture "torture."

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