Miers:  “Okay. For dessert, I’d really like a sundae, but I have a few conditions, and I’m afraid they are non-negotiable.  First, the dessert has to be made with either Neapolitan soft serve—or at the very least, a chocolate-vanilla swirl.  And second, are the sprinkles you use multi-colored?—or is this one of those Jim Crow holdover joints that only offers the little brown sprinkles…?”**

Anybody reading this a “blogchild” of mine?  Commissar is putting together a blogger family tree, so let me know if protein wisdom sired any of you people—most probably after a night of cockfights and tequila shooters.  I’m a sucker for an angry fighting bird. And no—there’s no such thing as a blog paternity suit.  Though I’m sure a few of the legal blogs are working to rectify that potentially lucrative

…I mean, look at Bolton’s droopy lip piece, the way it just kinda lays there.  It fairly screams, “YOU do all the work, honey!” Whereas MY mink?  Waxed and strategically curled for her pleasure—like a pair of pinkies, or a couple of polished, high-end sybians…

From the Times Online (UK): The United Nations withheld some of the most damaging allegations against Syria in its report on the murder of Rafik Hariri, the former Lebanese Prime Minister, it emerged yesterday. The names of the brother of Bashar al-Assad, President of Syria, and other members of his inner circle, were dropped from the report that was sent to the Security Council. Glenn has already covered this—and points

Larry Kudlow on Fed Chair nominee Ben Bernanke: CEA chair and former Fed governor Ben Bernanke is about to be nominated to succeed Alan Greenspan as Chairman of the Federal Reserve Board. In my view it is a good choice. Though Mr. Bernanke is not a hardcore advocate of the price rule, he does favor an inflation target, which is the second best option. Noteworthy is the fact that in

“New plan, Billy.  Once the 2000th US soldier finally croaks in Bush’s illegal war for Jews and oil, I head to D.C., give an impassioned antiwar speech, then tie myself to the White House fence and refuse to leave until the neocons agree to bring our troops home.  I’ll probably get arrested, but the whole thing should look, like, totally boss on TV —Mother Sheehan struggles to resist Chimpy’s stormtroopers

…to offer the soothing balm of healing.  From the Portland Press Herald: The Bush White House is the most corrupt administration in U.S. history since President Warren G. Harding’s, said Howard Dean during his first visit to Maine as chairman of the Democratic National Committee. Dean’s comments Saturday came as top White House advisers are being investigated for their roles in the outing of a CIA operative and Tom DeLay,

“Ooh.  Are those chocolate macaroons…?”

Tom Maguire, Jeralyn Merritt, and Arianna Huffington (among others) have done yeoman’s work covering the Plamegate story in all its intricate prosecutorial, grand jury, and media permutations, and soon—thankfully—Patrick Fitzgerald should let us all know what provisional conclusions his long investigation has yielded.  But in advance of that, let’s not forget the chain of events that brought us to this point—beginning with an October 15, 2001 CIA foreign government service

Last evening I noted that Hugh Hewitt, in his rebuttal to George Will’s critique of the Miers nomination, raised several serious questions aimed at those of us who’ve expressed particular concern over the nominee’s purported political positions on to affirmative action, quotas, and proportional representation—positions that, in my case, I’ve been arguing are a better political “litmus test” for discerning her likely judicial philosophy (in lieu of a judicial track