Worst Congress ever

For those interested in political journalism, here's Rolling Stone's article documenting just how bad the 109th Congress has been. Rolling Stone is generally known for its treatment of pop cultural phenomena (originally rock music), but over the years has done some serious work.

Also for the politically inclined w/in pop culture: interesting biographical piece on Garry Trudeau, cartoonist since before the Nixon Administration. Doonesbury has been a staple of comics pages (or, locally, the editorial pages) for about 35 years, and has broken ground for newspaper comics with its treatment of one of its regulars, who lost a leg in Iraq.