Recruiter suicides: Sgt. 1st Class Patrick Henderson, a strapping Iraq combat veteran, spent the last, miserable months of his life as an Army recruiter, cold-calling dozens of people a day from his strip-mall office and sitting in strangers’ living rooms, trying to sign up their sons and daughters for an unpopular war. He put in 13-hour days, six days a week, often encountering abuse from young people or their parents.

They have to build cases for it.

“People told me he was trouble, but I really thought he was too evolved and sensitive to hurt me the way he did,” Katherine said. Katherine’s director was an Homme Fatale—a genre of man that New York women have come to know well. Often the creative type, he projects a deceptive vulnerability, while maintaining an appealing confidence. He’s usually not the best-looking guy in the room, but he is the

deeply concerned that righty bloggers may not be worshipful enough. Related, the White House Press Secretary’s response to the NYT article that argued Bush poured gasoline on the mortgage fire (adding to the list of his terrible crimes arson, which they’d almost overlooked before he got out of office, you see): The Times’ ‘reporting’ in this story amounted to finding selected quotes to support a story the reporters fully intended

Five tons of frozen pangolin meat seized by Vietnamese officials. Suppose we’ll have to make do with lamb this year.

Insty: MOUTH BUT NO MONEY on Proposition 8? Generally, when I “beat the bushes” for contributions, I also contribute myself. Apparently Andrew Sullivan feels differently, or perhaps there’s some mistake somewhere. Maybe that’s because he’s generally on the receiving end of the beating. NTTAWWT. There’s lip service, and there’s service. NOTE: The following is posted at the donations website linked by Andrew: Contributions to No On 8 are not deductible

How about we give Chrysler and GM a billion dollar line of credit for every Detroit Lions loss this season?

a fascist gets his press credentials.

I can’t go into details, but my impression is that the whole mess started because the governor had been considering appointing a political rival, Illinois Attorney General Lisa Madigan, to the Senate so she wouldn’t be able to run against him when he went up for re-election in 2010. Apparently, Obama’s people weren’t happy about the idea of Madigan coming to Washington, and there were some pretty heated conversations between

Claudia Rosett’s take on Blago’s Kipling quotation: If …. Kipling Only Knew If you can keep your job while all about you Are fielding bribes and blaming it on you, If you can duck the Feds while all men doubt you, And bleep-ing show the charges are untrue, If you can fight and not be tired by fighting, Or, being wiretapped, profess surprise, Or argue that there will be no