Just in time for today's opening of the annual conservative confab known as CPAC - grisly details and video in More - Media Matters has launched Mythopedia, a "dictionary of conservative lies" featuring common right-wing misinformation, the truth and its sources, and helpful rebuttals. Eminently useful the next time your water-cooler neighbor brings up those beloved death panels.

Update: On CPAC's first day, Mitch McConnell gave Tom Coburn a gun as a lifetime award from the NRA. Because nothing says American values like guns on stage at large public gatherings.

The first medical marijuana ads have appeared, even as the legal status of pot evolves - medical use allowed in 20 states, though with some murky standoffs with federal law, and recreational use in Colorado and Washington - and battles over advertising heat up. Two magazines have sued Colorado for ad strictures modelled on alcohol that prohibit viewing by minors, arguing they violate the First Amendment. The first ads, airing late at night in New Jersey and Massachusetts, feature a sketchy street guy hustling questionable sushi. They are very weird.

In what justice advocates are calling "a stunning abuse of power," Florida prosecutors - the ones who let Mssrs. Zimmerman and Dunn murder two unarmed black teenagers - are seeking to triple the original 20-year sentence of Marissa Alexander for firing a shot in the direction of her abusive husband, who at the time was beating, strangling and threatening to kill her much as he admitted he had with earlier "baby mamas." State Attorney Angela Corey says (clearly WTF) state minimum sentencing laws mandate she seek 60 years; critics say Corey, facing  lawsuits and claims of wildly over-charging defendants, "is using the full power of the system to serve her own political ambitions at the (cost) of one woman’s life and every woman’s safety,” which sounds about right to us.