Linklets: Superheroes, Supervillians

• "Trust me when I tell you that the latter is the view in Clintonland. That they have more arrows in their quiver to fire at Obama, charges they believe will cast doubt on the hopemonger, raising the specter (terrifying to many Democrats) that John McCain and the Republican machine will make mincemeat of him. Trust me when I tell you that you ain't seen nothing yet." [NYM]

• "This is important." [xkcd]

• "I have decided I want to give as much energy as I can to the Change Congress movement. I will decide in the next week or so whether it makes sense to advance that movement by running for Congress. " [Lessig08]

• "Captain America bristles at the thought of 'Washington … telling us who the supervillains are,' but his insistence that heroes must be 'above' politics amounts to the claim that messy democratic deliberation can only hamper the good guys' efforts to protect America. The putative dissident suddenly sounds suspiciously like Director of National Intelligence Mitch McConnell defending warrantless spying." [TAP]

• "1000 students, along with an additional 1000 friends and supporters, are this morning walking the 7.3 miles between Prairie View and Hempstead in order to vote today. .... [T]he students plan to all vote today. There are only 2 machines available at the courthouse for early voting, so they hope to tie them up all day and into the night." [BOR]