Monday's Daily Brief: Mark Penn All But Out For Potential Hillary Clinton 2016 Run; Yahoo-Tumblr Deal Is Official

Monday, May 20, 2013 Mark Penn All But Out For Potential Hillary Clinton 2016 Run TECHNOLOGY Yahoo-Tumblr Deal Is Official: We Promise 'Not To Screw It Up' GREEN Deadly Tornadoes Rip Through Plains, Midwest MEDIA How Obama Administration Monitored Fox News Reporter BUSINESS Wall Street Beating Families To Houses During Recovery TED WEEKENDS WATCH: Learning To Read Someone Else's Mind BLOG POSTS Richard C. Levin: My Last Baccalaureate Address: Lately It Occurs to Me... We leave together. You leave Yale College after four years; I leave the Yale Presidency after twenty. I find myself thinking about a Grateful Dead song written in 1970, the year I came to Yale as a graduate student. You know the words: "Lately it occurs to me, what a long, strange trip it's been." It's been a long trip, but, for us, more wonderful than strange. Creed Bratton: Closing Creed Thoughts Well, that's that. Tears have been shed. Stories have been finalized and Creed ends up right where he belongs... jail. Sometimes the days were long, sometimes the coffee was odd, but the company was always... hmm, well, odd also. Robert F. Kennedy Jr.: Obama and Nixon: A Historical Perspective Those who bother to read these historical snippets will find many important departures and only tenuous parallels between the Obama Administration's IRS affair and Richard Nixon's Watergate-era IRS scandal. Michelangelo Signorile: Equality's Brutal Backlash: The Murder of Mark Carson and the Rise in Violence Against Gays We sometimes forget that getting laws passed and getting court rulings declared is, comparatively, the easy part. The hate is still out there, however, and the haters are getting more desperate. Our worst enemies right now are complacency and the seductive message that we've "arrived." Rebecca Solnit: Too Soon to Tell The despairing of May 2003 were convinced of one true thing, that we had not stopped the invasion of Iraq, but they extrapolated from that a series of false assumptions about our failures and our powerlessness across time and space.

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