Nuggets of internet gold:

• The World of Doorman-Priest waxes on temptations that never stop.

• David Everitt-Carlson of The Wild Wild East Dailies in Munich needs encouragement, and gets a lot of it. Beware automatic music on your PC speakers.

• Emily at The Vigil finds a strong Democrat who actually stands up to Republicans, speaks plainly, and tells the truth.

• Manifesto Joe of Texas Blues reflects on filibusters and one tired, cranky, former Presidential candidate.

• Conservative Chuck Thinks Right doesn't much mind when women athletes of Canada celebrate occasional victories.

• Sadly, Ned Williams at WisdomIsVindicated joins those miseducated souls who believe Senatorial filibusters were invented by Constitutional founders. Note to Ned: unlimited debate in the Senate came later, and was, until 2009, never used to block everything, everything.

• Gwendolyn Barry with New Global Myth becomes strangely rhapsodic about what you might otherwise have thought to be traditional public figures. Beware automatic music on your PC speakers.

• Jack Jodell, friend of the working blogger, at THE SATURDAY AFTERNOON POST manages odd sympathy for an ailing former Vice President and accurately anticipates GOP Senators at this week's health summit.

• MyCue at RANDOM THOUGHTS picks out the real winner of the health summit, hidden in plain sight.

• Nancy Hanks at The Hankster takes a short break from independent voters to show us what winter has been in NYC.

• Max's Dad brings to us wrenching personal testimony from Olbermann about his father.

• James Wigderson hates the notion of Presidents elected by voters.

• Slant Right's John Houk hates it even more than that when anti-Muslim hate speech is called ...well... anti-Muslim hate speech.

Have a safe weekend. Pray for those in financial trouble, and those who are ill and cannot afford treatment. Be careful out there.