Kerouac:  “Who cares?  Just mix tartar sauce and catsup.  Now, what’s say we go do something important, like maybe smoke a little reefer and dress our angst in the finery of words, man…”

Powerline’s John Hinderaker is having Second Thoughts on Kelo: Today most significant development projects involve multiple uses and cooperation between public and private entities. While such projects can no doubt be subject to various abuses, they can also be enormously successful and of great public benefit–to take just one example, consider the spectacular renovation of Baltimore’s inner harbor. Moreover, two factors minimize the danger that economic development projects pose to

1.  Tom Elia says the Left is coming unhinged.  In other news, oxygen is important to humans, certain rocks make excellent paperweights, and Michael Moore is hungry. 2.  A very good cause.  Please, click over, read, and then do what you can to help him out. 3.  Post-July 4 reflections on freedom, from Mac. 4.  Patterico finds the LA Times engaging in a bit of peculiar math in the service

Sorry, all—I’ve spent the morning deleting Texas holdem trackbacks and reading through the fascinating arguments in this INDC Journal thread on a potential Alberto Gonzalez Supreme Court nomination. My take, very quickly:  Gonzalez, like O’Connor, is in disposition more of a politician than a potential Supreme Court justice—and his opinions, to the degree that I know them (he supports an assault weapons ban, he’s status quo on affirmative action, he