—Well, no, not in New Zealand it’s not.  In fact, it’s Saturday morning in New Zealand. Too bad, too—because you guys coming late to the party missed one hell of an entertaining armadillo jig!  Little fucker was spinning like Al Franken confronted with Iraqi voter turnout numbers.

From USNews’ David Kaplan: Who’s funding the insurgents in Iraq? The list of suspects is long: ex-Baathists, foreign jihadists, and angry Sunnis, to name a few. Now add to that roster hard-core Euroleftists. Turns out that far-left groups in western Europe are carrying on a campaign dubbed Ten Euros for the Resistance, offering aid and comfort to the car bombers, kidnappers, and snipers trying to destabilize the fledgling Iraq government.

Postmodern Chicken Little: “Well, while I wouldn’t say the sky is falling, exactly—it is, after all, that very kind of dangerous literalism that has historically devolved into pernicious, anti-communitarian fundamentalist ideologies of all stripes—I am nevertheless prepared to buy myself a big ass gun, and to stock my bomb shelter with lots of canned corn…” **** update:  “Anybody know of a militia that accepts postmodern chickens?”

Regarding yesterday’s stunningly anti-Constitutional, pro-government SCOTUS ruling expanding the scope of eminent domain, The New York Times editorializes: The Supreme Court’s ruling yesterday that the economically troubled city of New London, Conn., can use its power of eminent domain to spur development was a welcome vindication of cities’ ability to act in the public interest. It also is a setback to the “property rights” movement, which is trying to block