1.  Christopher Hitchens lets loose:  “Plame Out:  The Ridiculous End to the Scandal That Distracted Washington”. 2.  And speaking of Plamegate….Just let it go, Jason.  Just.  Let. It. Go. (Via Colossus; AJ Strata has more). 3.  Oh.  And did I mention that Joe Wilson traveled to Niger to check out AQ Khan a full 3 years before checking on Saddam Hussein’s nuclear ambitions?  Wilson found nothing amiss with the Khan

Some of you may not be interested in this, but since the other shoe dropped—I learned a few days back that I need to be out of the duplex I rent by October 1 (though I have some legal wiggle room to push that date back a bit)—my wife and I are looking to buy our first house.  And it seems we are doing so at the precise moment when