Two long posts today, both lost to posterity because of some glitch in the publishing software.  And honestly?  I have no desire to try to reproduce them in full. So here are some quick notes:

Q: Why did Andrew Sullivan cross the road? A: Why, to protest America’s descent into the depths of evil, of course!—a gesture meant to signify performatively that “no one in future generations will be able to defend America’s honor, without having [our degrading and inhumane treatment of jihadists] thrown back in their faces.  Or, if you prefer, one can interpret the crossing as an artistic metaphor for his resignation that

In the case of British Holocaust denier David Irving—”sentenced to three years in prison Monday after admitting to an Austrian court that he denied the Holocaust”– neo-neocon comes down on the side of free speech, though not without a bit of honest soul-searching:

Seconds ago, actor Harry Hamlin showed up at my door trying to sell me Jesus and some all-purpose cleaning liquid (concentrate). I declined, naturally, but I did slip him a five spot so that he could get himself a chicken sandwich and some fries.

Eric S Raymond picks up on themes readers of this blog will surely recognize.  From “Gramscian damage”::

From the WSJ (subscribers):

PJ Media’s WMD Files today features three videos from this past weekend’s Intelligence Summit (discussed here yesterday). The first, Bill Tierney, is the man who revealed the Saddam tapes and whose translation differs from ABC/Nightline’s. Included are portions of Tierney’s opening speech followed by an interview. Second is former Director of Central Intelligence James Woolsey, whowwas on the original board for the Intelligence Summit until he pulled out suddenly because

I don’t care what anybody says:  Sean Hannity has that touch of gray of his cosmetically applied to his temples in order to pretend to a journalistic gravitas that he simply has not earned.  And for that, I despise him.*

From Stephen Green, my Guinness benefactor (who, I don’t believe, is in any way responsible for the two days of suffering I’ve undergone as a result of drinking things I can only identify by their reflux acidity): Hey, just because Arafat is dead doesn’t mean Jimmy Carter can’t still suck up to Palestinian terrorists! Carter has moved beyond an embarrassment and has actually morphed from an ex-President and would-be statesman

I’m pretty sure I just saw one of the UPS guy’s testicles.  Which, let’s face it:  that possibility is the whole reason behind the shorts thing to begin with, right?