Counterclockwise from left: Kukla, Fran, Ollie and George Soros (Photoshop by Serr8d–huge thanks)

Michelle Malkin’s new Vent takes the WSJ editorial board to task over its claim that “the National Review crowd” is engaging in “irrational fear mongering” in its resistance to the Bush Immigration Reform bill—providing the self-satisfied board yet again (for better or worse) the actual arguments against the proposed legislation compromise, arguments the WSJ editorial board pretends do not exist or have never been expressed coherently or sans froth. Instead,

Yet another reason to look quizzically at professional gladhand Trent Lott. Although for me, his hair—which appears to have burbled like pitch up through his follicles before hardening just slightly askew—was already plenty. (h/t CJ Burch) **** update:  from the archives, here’s my 2004 interview with Senator Kennedy.

From Reason’s “Brickbats”: When London police refused even to send an officer to investigate a burglary at his home, Otto Chan put up posters offering a reward for anyone who returned his things.  When police officers saw the posters, they threatened to arrest Chan for trying to buy stolen goods. Of course, it might have been worse:  in China, for instance, rumor has it they’ll execute you and then bill

Poor Brittney Gilbert.  Seems that being a staunch progressive—and a consistent critic of vile chickenhawk wingnuts— isn’t enough to save you from a wagon-circling lefty pogrom, particularly if you’re not terribly well known outside your bailiwick. Be sure to check out the comments, where Gilbert is torn limb from tender, sisterly limb by those whose job it is to protect The Collective. My favorite moment from the lynchmob is this