Men are supposed to be the bad ones.

to join Allah Pundit.  No word on Bryan. It is with regret that I announce that Bryan Preston has left the company. He has chosen to take a position as a producer with the Laura Ingraham radio show. We thank him for all the time and talent he devoted to making Hot Air a success. Please wish him all the best in his new endeavors. I don’t think Bryan likes

but it seems to me that the less time they have to prepare for them, the less wretched the Oscars are.

Jay Rosen. Public Editor to Bill Keller: “You Haven’t Got it.” Clark Hoyt’s verdict: wrong to run. Mine: “Times editors are extremely smart people prevented by their own codes from thinking politically. Yet those same codes permit intrusions into politics, like the Vicki Iseman story, that require them to think politically or risk terrible missteps.”  The article turns out not to be as bad as all that, though: Jeff [Jarvis]

ABC’s Jake Tapper reports: Appealing to union voters in a dry wall manufacturing plant in this crucial primary state, Sen. Barack Obama, D-Ill., Sunday afternoon said that even though he has repeatedly said the passage of NAFTA was bad for the country, he would not try to repeal it. *** He argued arguing that because the trade deal had been passed more than a decade ago, it was entrenched in the

Oh, for crying out loud.  Now the NYT is amplifying the Obama assassination watch meme.  Fine. Embrace the macabre: I am announcing the Obama Murder Pool.  When Obama’s assassinated, who will turn out to have killed him?

Unless you’re CNN, in which case you throw up one of those unscientific online polls on the issue. Meanwhile, Nation of Islam Minister Louis Farrakhan compared Obama to the religion’s founder, Fard Muhammad, who also had a white mother and black father: “A black man with a white mother became a savior to us,” he told the crowd of mostly followers. “A black man with a white mother could turn