Anybody interested in having a total stranger sleep over? He’ll be drunk and smelling of driver’s seat and tortilla chips. Hello…?

From Reuel Marc Gerecht’s “Who’s Afraid of Abu Ghraib,” comes this insightful bit: A very odd, very American notion about foreign affairs has now become gospel in certain quarters in Washington: Bin Ladenism will end and democracy spread throughout the Muslim Middle East only when a critical mass of Muslims like, respect, and trust us. Democracy cannot exist in the Muslim mind on its own merits but is judged overwhelmingly

My plan here was to take John Kerry to task for using a Memorial Day event as an opportunity to bash the Bush administration’s war strategy, but I’m afraid I can’t think of anything just now other than potato salad. With bits of chopped pickle. So much potato salad. So unless you want to hear me call Kerry a lump of pickle-flecked potato salad, you’re going to want to go