Fortunately, the 66 year-old man Novak hit has only minor injuries, which means Novak will probably only see a minor penalty. And that’s too bad. Karl posted on this, of course, but I thought I’d letterbox it. Sociopath. See Liberty Street. I guess Soros digs that shit, though.

I want to point out Michael Knox Beran’s article on Obama and the perfectibility of human nature, the best article I’ve read on the web in a while (Shelby Steele’s perfectly formulated piece about Obama’s appeal being the companion piece and other contender). I’d excerpt some, but you really ought to read the whole thing, even if I think the author underestimates the satirical intent of Machiavelli. Matt Heidt and

I had fun at Silky’s expense yesterday, but I want to say that still and all, and as absurd as his behavior has been in some respects, I count it as a point in Silky’s favor that she had the child and that he’s shown an interest. So, as much as I’d like to mock him more, I do feel sorry for Elizabeth and his family, and for Rielle and

The Gallup tracking poll bumps along, “with no sign yet of a significant ‘bounce’ from [Barack] Obama’s high-visibility world tour.”  The weighted average of recent polls at Pollster.com shows the presidential contest tightening, with Obama holding a mere 2% lead over John McCain. At the New York Times, Alessandra Staley cannot stop fawning over the fabulous “optics” of the Obama tour, though she wonders if some will find his supremely confident pose presumptuous. 

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Not even a 66-year-old pedestrian: Syndicated columnist Robert D. Novak was cited by police after he hit a pedestrian with his black Corvette in downtown Washington, D.C., on Wednesday morning. *** “I didn’t know I hit him. I feel terrible,” a shaken Novak told reporters from Politico and WJLA as he was returning to his car. That’s not how the bicyclist who stopped Novak from driving away sees it: In an

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Michelle Obama hardest hit: We’ve watched with a mixture of pride and trepidation as the wife of the first serious African American presidential contender has weathered recent campaign travails — being called unpatriotic for a single offhand remark, dubbed a black radical because of something she wrote more than 20 years ago and plastered with the crowning stereotype: “angry black woman.” And then being forced to undergo a politically mandated