I got nothin’, I just love the lede. A landlady who swore at two lesbian police officers fondling in her public house – The Old Cock – has been cleared of a public order offence.

Yesterday, subbing for O’Reilly, Michelle Malkin expressed skepticism regarding Barbara Boxer’s proposed “Airline Passengers’ Bill of Rights.” There then issued an outpouring of love and well-wishes in the comments section thereto devoted at Think Progress (where thinking would mark progress). Personally, I’d like for Patrick Leahy to sponsor a fast food drive-through customers’ bill of rights. What other consumers’ bills of rights do you think that our legislators ought to

as much as I hate Bush! h/t Reynolds Sad news, guys. If you’re not Sparta the solution, you’re . . . Who was behind the Edwards blogresses hires?

The Victory Caucus logo resembles that of V for Vendetta! This is typical Greenwaldian tendentiousness.  All of us think in terms of analogies.  It is one of the fundamental ways in which the human mind operates, and if tempered by something more stringent, such as logic and an investigation of facts and premises, it can be very valuable.  Even if it is used heuristically, it may be valuable provided the

Guardian US correspondent decries blog speculation on motives of SLC mall murderer. Occam’s razor is not a thin-profile cell phone. From David Thompson, another excellent piece that chronicles the paper’s cozy relations with Islamofascists: al-Guardian & the Brotherhood (Janis Joplin’s still dead) A taste, regarding comments editor Seumas Milne (a Scott Burgess favorite): It isn’t clear why Milne continues to give a platform to the Brotherhood and its affiliates. Like

Apple Inc. CEO Steve Jobs lambasted teacher unions today, claiming no amount of technology in the classroom would improve public schools until principals could fire bad teachers. Jobs compared schools to businesses with principals serving as CEOs. “What kind of person could you get to run a small business if you told them that when they came in they couldn’t get rid of people that they thought weren’t any good?”

Asteroid threat demands response, experts warn Kamchatkans and Venezuelans beware. A 20-million-tonne asteroid could be heading your way. Californians have even more reason to worry – the asteroid is more likely to hit the Pacific Ocean, triggering a tsunami that could devastate the west coast of North America. These are among the scenarios projected for asteroid Apophis, which researchers now say has a 1 in 45,000 chance of hitting Earth