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Did House Minority Leader Nancy Pelosi just pull a ninja Jedi Matrix move on former House Speaker Newt Gingrich? In an interview with TPMDC, Leader Pelosi promised to release some juicy stuff about the current GOP frontrunner, “when the time is right.”

Gingrich responded to Pelosi Monday afternoon by warning Pelosi about such revelations, not because they weren’t true, but because he says they would violate House rules.

What’s in a generation? The New York Times took a gander at profiling the famous-for-being-young crowd of political bloggers in Washington, DC now rapidly approaching their thirties on Friday, alternately referring to them as “brat packers” the “juicebox mafia,” and analogs to the characters (not actors) of St. Elmo’s Fire. But in labeling them upstarts in political media, the Times has exposed itself as out of touch with how rapidly generations of writers mature outside the print world.

Health care reform isn’t exactly about health care reform anymore. TPM commentator Brian Beutler is quite comfortable with the fact that the Obama administration’s proposed bipartisan health care summit will probably do little to promote the cause of universal health care. So what’s the point? You may be surprised to hear his conclusion.

The online magazine Slate is known for its particular brand of counter-intuitive argument. Everything you thought you knew is wrong, and Slate’s often convincing stable of writers will show you the error of your ways, though sometimes, the knee-jerk contrarianism seems a bit predictable. Now, some of the site’s readers are using the Twitter tag #slatepitches to poke fun at the website’s editorial vision. And it’s hilarious.