Young, good-looking, rich, heir to the throne, babe-magnet, and now, Taliban-killer. I don’t want to be Tom Brady anymore.

To Tab Lloyd.  What do you think?

Never-before released photos of abuses at Abu Ghraib prison in Iraq were made public at an elite gathering in California on Thursday. Stanford University professor Philip Zimbardo displayed the shocking images as he described the prison’s design as resulting in a “Lucifer effect” that turned seemingly ordinary guards evil.” If you give people power without oversight it is a formula for abuse,” Zimbardo said to stunned audience members at the Technology,

Josh Marshall’s effort to impose a double-standard on the campaign, under which John McCain must repudiate any person or any comment about Barack Obama deemed to be inappropriately racial or ethnic, while Obama is excused from discussing his less savory associations, has been taken up by a number of left-liberal bloggers during the course of the day. Leading the charge, unsurprisingly, is Rick Ellensburg, infamous Internet sock-puppeteer.  In this instance, Ellensburg’s tack

After I noted Josh Marshall’s effort to impose a double-standard on the campaign under which John McCain must ritualistically repudiate any person or any comment about Barack Obama deemed to be inappropriately racial or ethnic, while Obama is excused from discussing his less savory associations, Allahpundit flagged a piece at TNR by Historian4Hillary Sean Wilentz, noting how Obama has played the race card against Hillary Clinton (though I agree with AP that

How bad — how ugly, how far over the line of decency — is it to invoke Barack Obama’s middle name in attacking him? It’s so ugly and so far over the line that not even Alan Keyes in his most overwrought, spittle-flecked moments did it during his 2004 Senate run against Obama in Illinois. Did you call me Phillip, motherf*cker?  What’s your middle name, asshole?  I dare you to

Ectopic stupidity. I can’t help you, son, cuz you’re too young to vote Bad for children.

The Ethical Killbot has withdrawn their offer to me.  Apparently, comments in my goodbye post caused them to take a second look.  Comments that suggested I wasn’t killbotty.  Comments that compared me to a metrosexual C3PO knock-off. Anyway, the upshot is they called Ric Caric and he explained how unmanly I am.  So that’s that.  Thanks a lot. You guys are the best.

At TPM, Josh Marshall is already proclaiming the vast right-wing conspiracy against Barack Obama: Hopefully, everyone can now see the McCain strategy for running against Barack Obama. Yes, we have some general points on taxes, culture wars and McCain as war hero who can protect us in ways that flash-in-the-pan pretty boy Barack Obama can’t. But that’s not the core. The core is to drill a handful of key adjectives