John Kerry, discussing the Karl Rove / Valerie Plame dustup: It’s remarkable that the presidential aide who should be packing his bags is instead sitting in White House meetings about stacking the Supreme Court with rigid ideologues. The last thing America needs—and the last thing we will tolerate—is Rove-style tactics in the critical decisions our nation is about to make about the shape of the Supreme Court. America replies:  “Actually,

“SHUTTLE PREPARES TO LAUNCH FROM HURRICANE-DEVASTATED, SHARK-RIDDLED FLORIDA AS RESCUE WORKERS CALL IT QUITS IN THE SEARCH FOR NATALEE.”

6:12-6:27 – Player introductions.  Colorado Rockies relief pitcher Brian Fuentes, to the surprise of just about everyone, receives the biggest ovation.  Meanwhile, embattled Rangers pitcher Kenny Rogers manages to take the sting out of the boos by trotting onto the field with a big pimp hat and a hooker on each arm.  He looks a little drunk, too.  But that’s just me speculating.

“freedom” → “the soft tyranny of rampant consumerism” “insurgency” → “quasi-soccer hooligans” “Islamic fundamentalism” → “slightly miffed Muslims with a wee bit of a bone to pick” “inchoate democracy” → “seemingly endless fields of dead Iraqi civilians whose dying wish was to return their country to the halcyon days of Saddam’s stern but loving rule.” “Israel” → “Palestinian territory” “George Bush” → ”Him” “french fries” → “chips” “United States” →

FOXNews’ “Dayside” today featured in one of its segments an Allegheny County, PA fifth-grader, winner of the “There Ought to be a Law” contest sponsered by Allegheny County legislators.  His winning entry?  A bill maintaining that all animals need be restrained while riding in moving vehicles.  Oh—and that dogs shouldn’t be allowed to stick their heads out of car windows.  Because of the danger. Isn’t that just so adorable?  Cue

From CNN: Afghan villagers sheltered a U.S. Navy SEAL wounded in a battle last month with the Taliban until they could get word to American forces to rescue him, a military official said Monday. The SEAL was part of a four-man reconnaissance team that went missing June 28 after calling for help during a firefight in the mountains near the Afghanistan-Pakistan border. The other three members of the team died

From Sky News: Personal documents of four suspected bombers were found near the bomb scenes of the London terror attacks – at least one of them may have died in the strikes, police say. The men travelled down from west Yorkshire and arrived at Kings Cross station shortly before the attacks were launched on Thursday morning. Their images were captured by CCTV cameras. All four attackers – not confirmed to

Good piece by David Limbaugh responding to the Washington Post’s E.J. Dionne, who, in arguing (however peripherally) for strict proportional representation, displays a fundamental misunderstanding of how the US government is supposed to function, and betrays a cynical (and thoroughly partisan) view of the courts that Limbaugh is correct to seize upon: […] E. J. Dionne Jr. asked in a recent column, “Should a temporary majority of 50.7 percent have