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

Bite me is the thing that you must do: Perhaps we should peel away the rhetoric of victimhood, used so indecently, and look at what’s actually being demanded here: A right not to hear that one is being irrational, dishonest or mortifyingly stupid, regardless of just how irrational, dishonest or mortifyingly stupid one actually is. That’s a license of no small magnitude, and one that a person of good faith would

Literally.  Perfunction has the video. (h/t The Perfesser.)

The New York Times editorializes on the ongoing effort to amend the Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Act: For more than two years now, Congress, the news media, current and former national security officials, think tanks and academic institutions have been engaged in a profound debate over how to modernize the law governing electronic spying to keep pace with technology. We keep hoping President Bush will join in. Instead, the president offers

It is not schadenfreude, but sheer amusement at political cowardice, which causes me to recommend Sunday’s New York Times survey of Democratic superdelegates, who are growing increasingly nervous about the risks of a prolonged fight between Senators Hillary Rodham Clinton and Barack Obama: Over all, the interviews with these influential Democrats presents a portrait of a particularly exclusive political community in flux, looking for an exit strategy and hoping they will be relieved of