On Eliot Spitzer’s prostitution charges.  “But Monkey“: Who cares if Eliot Spitzer hires prostitutes? Regarding all of the breathless moralizing from all sides over the “reprehensible,” outrageous crimes of Eliot Spitzer: are there actually many people left who care if an adult who isn’t their spouse hires prostitutes? Are there really people left who think that doing so should be a crime, that adults who hire other consenting adults for sex

Eliot Spitzer at Daily Kos:  I would like to take this opportunity to congratulate the netroots community on a successful weekend in Chicago . . .  h/t Pablo 

Via AoS, NY Governor Elliot Spitzer huddles with his staff to impart the news that he’s involved with a prostitution ring. Bwahahahahahaha! Hmmmmmm.  I wonder why they always refer to it as a “ring.” UPDATE: Bwahahahahahahaha!!1!!!! I haven’t grinned this way since I found out about Gunter Grass’s Nazi past.

Via NRO via Hot Air: In a 2004 interview with the Chicago Tribune, Michelle observed: “What I notice about men, all men, is that their order is me, my family, God is in there somewhere, but me is first. … And, for women, me is fourth, and that’s not healthy.” This is not a radical observation: Get a half-dozen gals together with a few bottles of Beaujolais, and a similar

Excitable Andy, if nothing else, lives down to his nickname in his latest column on the Democratic presidential campaign for the Times of London.  For example, his take on Clinton’s wins in Texas and Ohio: Objectively, an accomplished senator won a couple of races – one by a mere 3% – against another senator in a presidential campaign. One senator is still mathematically unbeatable. But that will never capture the emotional toll

Hizbullah arch-terrorist Imad Mugniyah becomes immortalized in form of new Iranian stamp issued as ‘cultural message of support’ from Iran to Lebanon (h/t Hot Air)

Much More is Coming Between 2005 and 2013 cosmic dust will increase by another factor of 3. Thus making the second increase three times more intense. We are in for a rough ride. Of greatest concern is volcanic activity which has increased 500% over the past 100 years. The timing of this cosmic dust increase is disturbing because the usually dependable (every 600,000 years) Yellowstone super volcano (30 x 50

In the wake of the Goolsbee/NAFTA flap, in which Austan Goolsbee suggested to Canadian diplomats that Barack Obama’s protectionist rhetoric on trade might be just for politics, Camp Obama suddenly seems as though they have barely heard of the distinguished U of Chicago economist: “I think Austan innocently went over there, half as a professor, half as a campaign adviser,” said Obama campaign manager David Axelrod. “He’s basically a volunteer. He’s

At the New Yorker, Ryan Lizza writes a piece title “The Iron Lady,” which is about as friendly to Hillary Clinton’s campaign as reality will allow – and occasionally a little friendlier. For example, Lizza notes: There is now, and has always been, a certain joylessness in her bearing. She has been trying to make discipline a selling point since her first “listening tour” of New York State, in the months before

Stop the Breathing!  The task of cutting greenhouse gas emissions enough to avert a dangerous rise in global temperatures may be far more difficult than previous research suggested, say scientists who have just published studies indicating that it would require the world to cease carbon emissions altogether within a matter of decades. Their findings, published in separate journals over the past few weeks, suggest that both industrialized and developing nations