The New York Times has been running a series called “Disunion,” focusing on the news of 150 years ago. In today’s contribution, someone applied a data mining technique to Confederate news stories to gauge how propaganda was used to whip up enthusiasm for the war. I found the results horrifying and fascinating.

Follow that up with “Forgetting Why We Remember.”

See also “A Memorial Day Look at Afghanistan.”

Elsewhere — Breitbart has been pushing a hoax story about Anthony Weiner, and the dopey dupes in the Right Blogosphere are in a feeding frenzy over it. The genuinely scummy thing about this is that a young woman implicated in the story has become a target of the goon squad and has had her private life thoroughly demolished by the goons.

Righties — on the evolutionary tree somewhere between piranha and mosquitoes.

Update: Rep. Weiner hired an attorney.

Update: Jim Hoft descends to new lows of creepiness.