Catherine Zeta-Jones has Bi-Polar Disorder II. What does the II mean?

Bipolar II is less severe than bipolar I. The key difference is that patients with bipolar II do not have full-blown manic episodes. Rather, they cycle between milder, hypomanic episodes and episodes of major depression. Women are slightly more likely to have bipolar II than men.

...many bipolar adults — particularly those with bipolar II — are misdiagnosed with clinical depression. "People tend to seek treatment for depression, but not for mania because it feels good,"

New York Labor activist and Huffington Post volunteer blogger Jonathan Tasini has filed a huge, class action lawsuit against Arianna Huffington, Huffington Post, AOL and Kenneth Lehrer.

You can read the complaint here.

The theory is unjust enrichment, which is neither a statutory nor contract claim but an equitable doctrine based in common law. Since HuffPo bloggers agreed to submit their writing to HuffPo without being paid, the suit is based on the theory, under ommon law, that HuffPo (and now AOL) are being unjustly enriched by the bloggers' contributions.

In other words, the fact that the vast majority of Huffington Post’s 9,000 bloggers signed on without any expectation of direct monetary gain is irrelevant to this claim. “Rather, it’s the value contributed to the Huffington Post, which is very much amenable to class treatment...”

Via Digby, how Republicans propose "concessions" and how Dems and the Media react:

[CNN's Jessica] Yellin: Senator Chamblis do you believe that Senate Republicans will agree to a package that includes any sort of tax changes?

Chambliss: Well, the fact of the matter is that you can't solve this debt problem just with reductions in discretionary spending. [. . .] You've got to look at the revenue side also. What we are looking at proposing is actually a reduction in corporate rates and personal individual income tax rates [. . .] Every time we've done that in years past whether it was under President Reagan or president Bush we have seen revenues increase.

Yellin: Senator Warner, that's a big concession by Republicans. [. . .]

(Emphasis supplied.) Digby reports that Warner basically agreed with Chambliss. So the big GOP concession on taxes is that they will cut them for the rich and for corporations. Classic.

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The latest on Trump from Mediate. As Mediate writes, the Fox and Friends' segue from Trump's attacks on President Obama to Gary Busey's activities on Celebrity Apprentice was classic.

Previously, there was a Trump/Gail Collins dispute, after Collins delivered a Gail Collins' Daily News era style skewering of the "thousandaire."

Vanity Fair, where Graydon Carter (who created the great Spy magazine, coiners of the Short Fingered Vulgarian moniker) runs the show, also get in the act.

Bob Dylan finally got to Vietnam this weekend, where he performed in Ho Chi Minh City (formerly Saigon.)

The set list was vetted by the Government but none were rejected. Dylan also played in Shanghai and Beijing.

Fred Armisen is back as President Obama on SNL tonight, addressing the budget deal.

"In a true example of compromise, I am pleased to say no one got everything he wanted and everyone walked away unhappy."

Charlie Sheen's opening night of his media tour in Detroit was an unmitigated disaster. Boos, catcalls, people shouting for refunds and walking out.

This reviewer says fans were angered and stunned.

Charlie was a dud.

What did people expect from a man whose grasp on reality diminishes daily? Lucidity?

As for Sheen's post-show comments, this about says it all: "It's OK, this has been an experiment," he said. As for the next shows: "We've got it under control."[More...]

All YouTube videos without ads today will have a 1911 mode which plays them in silent movie style.

Two years ago today, Hillary challenged Obama to a bowl-off.

April Fools on Twitter is here

Happy April Fools day everyone! This is an open thread, all topics welcome.

The unrepentant sexist Andrew Sullivan:

Quote For The Day

"God bless [Clinton]" - Karl Rove, on the secretary of state's success in starting the war in Libya.

(Emphasis supplied.) Poor hen pecked Obama sez Sully. It's no wonder he is a Tweety favorite.

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Via Echidne, The Nation's Robert Dreyfus has a problem with women. The Nation's Katha Pollit responds:

In a post entitled “Obama’s Women Advisers Pushed War Against Libya [1]" (originally titled “Obama’s Women” tout court) he’s shocked-shocked-shocked that UN Ambassador Susan Rice, human-rights adviser Samantha Power and Secretary of State Hillary Clinton were keen on intervening militarily in Libya. The piece is dotted with arch and sexist language—the advisers are a “troika,” a “trio” who “rode roughshod over the realists in the administration” (all men) and “pushed Obama to war.” Now it’s up to the henpecked President to “reign (sic) in his warrior women.” Interestingly, the same trope—ballbreaking women ganging up on a weak president—is all over the rightwing blogosphere. [. . . C]an you imagine a piece in The Nation titled “Black President Opts for Bombs” or “Qaddafi, a Man, Threatens to Massacre Rebels, Most of Whom Are Also Men”?

Misogyny—it’s the last acceptable prejudice of the left.

Indeed.

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Via Atrios, Media Matters reports on NRO's sexism:

[T]he problem is not with women leaders — the enemies of the Virgin Queen and the Iron Lady can attest to that. The problem is not even with the president having strong female subordinates. Rather, Obama's pusillanimity has been hugely magnified by the contrast with the women directing his foreign policy and the fact that they nagged him to attack Libya until he gave in. Maybe it's unfair and there shouldn't be any difference from having a male secretary of state do the same thing, but there is.

The title of the piece - They Know Who Wears the Pants in This Country. Nice.

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The middle part of the country—the great red zone that voted for Bush—is clearly ready for war. The decadent Left in its enclaves on the coasts is not dead—and may well mount what amounts to a fifth column - Andrew Sullivan

I do not see the American national interest in a military intervention in Libya. But it can not possibly be compared to the Iraq Debacle, the worst decision in recent American Presidential history. When you supported the Iraq Debacle and assailed in vicious terms anyone who opposed it, a little humility is in order. Andrew Sullivan is incapable of such humility. Coupled with his hatred of anything Clinton (did you know that Hillary Clinton tricked Obama into the Libya action?), it produces this: