Wednesday link dump: Baby’s in black

Insincere eulogies, incorrect historical examples, and the FBI's John Lennon records

By Alex Pareene

Who else decided to pretend that they liked Elizabeth Edwards? Why, Tina Brown and Kathleen Parker, of course.
Thomas Friedman wrote something so stupid today that Jonah Goldberg wrote something I approve of.
Barack Obama’s “widows and orphans” line about Social Security is incorrect. As is his characterization of the left-wing position on healthcare reform, but whatever.
Celebrate John Lennon by reading the “many gross pages of documents” that the FBI has posted relating to their hounding of him.