is that the repulsiveness of his rhetoric is made worse by the context in which it is manifested.  Let’s just take the issue of his reflections on Romans and Jews.  You might think this is evidence, despite the Reverend’s explicit stand on Israel, of a proper differentiation between between Zionists and Jews.  You’d be wrong.  The point is actually that the occupiers were responsible for Jesus’ crucifixion . . .

Geogetown Law School Prof. Neal Katyal and Richard Caplan (Class of 2007) have an article titled, “The Surprisingly Stronger Case for the Legality of the NSA Surveillance Program: The FDR Precedent” from the forthcoming issue of the Stanford Law Review available for download as an Adobe Acrobat file.  According to the abstract: This Article explains why the legal case for the recently disclosed National Security Agency surveillance program turns out to be

I dunno.  Let’s ask manliness expert, Ric Caric, maybe? What we have discovered in the last week is that the Clintons imparted lessons in our political life that have indeed taken hold. That a governor, caught in Spitzer’s scandal, would even think for a moment that he had any honorable course other than resigning, would have been regarded as astonishing even into the 1990’s. That Silda Spitzer could have urged

righty blogs not. (h/t serr8d)

The Washington Post’s Dan Balz discovers voters who look like him: In the fierce campaign between Sens. Hillary Rodham Clinton and Barack Obama, a battle dominated by questions of race and gender, white men have emerged as perhaps the single critical swing constituency. The competition for the support of white men, particularly those defined as working class, will shape the showdown between Clinton and Obama in Pennsylvania’s Democratic presidential primary

and vice-versa: A former aide to James E. McGreevey said today that he had three-way sexual trysts with the former governor and his wife before he took office, challenging Dina Matos McGreevey’s assertion that she was naive about her husband’s sexual exploits. Related thoughts from Little Miss Attila.  (h/t Glenn Reynolds) Oh! the McGrievous McGrief!

Sinister Wig on (Elements of) the Final Solution

and Orange. Course, they was pretty much white folk, sorta.

JD Johannes emails: The DVD is now available…finally!   Here is a trailer…   http://outsidethewire.com/documentary-series/about/extended-trailer.html   and a little blog about the release….   http://outsidethewire.com/blog/documentary-series/documentaries-available-on-dvd.html   JD

We’ve hit a kind of worthwhile homeostasis, among my hip-shots, Karl’s interpretations of the political landscape, Darleen’s choice observations on the zeitgeist, and the occasional cultural observations of TSI and Craig.  It’s good enough for an excellent website, I think, but it’s still not Protein Wisdom.  It’s not Jeff. I don’t know what it’s going to take to bring him back full time.  I know he’s got his hands full with