Yglesias: The past week saw a lot of “what did I get wrong”-type articles about Iraq and they frequently put me in the mind of the incompetence dodge. I note that one frequent way in which people argue for the proposition that poor execution, rather than an underlying flawed concept, are at the root of the Iraq disaster is to simply observe that mistakes were made in Iraq. For example,

Washington Times: Tom Borelli is so sure the Walt Disney Co. is suppressing the DVD release of the 2006 miniseries “The Path to 9/11” for political reasons that he is ready to put up money to prove the point. Mr. Borelli, a Disney shareholder, accused Disney CEO Robert Iger at a March 6 shareholders’ meeting of blocking the release of “Path” in order to protect Hillary Clinton’s presidential campaign and

Mike Baker files a report for the Associated Press on Bill Clinton’s swing through North Carolina, touting his wife’s presidential campaign: Clinton opened his day in Charlotte, telling veterans at an invitation-only event that Hillary Clinton can provide better health care for troops back from combat and will reduce the number of troops in Iraq. He continued to highlight the military issue later in Cary, accentuating his wife’s gender to

From LGF:  Bill Gertz and Jon Ward report that one of the people who illegally accessed the presidential candidates’ passport records works for a company headed by an adviser to the Barack Obama campaign. Curiouser and curiouser.  Will they find a noose?

At Facebook, in the space where Rightwingsparkle had sent me a video, I find this notice: It’s really terribly, terribly disappointing to find that someone you considered a friend would post something  . . . distasteful.  However, I find that I can no more renounce her than I can my penis. Glenn Reynolds hanging with some hot chick. Tom Stoppard vs. Time Stoppered Just how bored are you?  YouTube’s Best

Scientists believe a rope-like organism that lived on the seabed up to 570 million years ago was the first creature on earth to have sex. Researchers studying ancient fossils think a peculiar animal called Funisia dorothea was sexually active 30 million years before any other. h/t Hot Air They called her Fun Dorothy.

Most Gracious Lord, we humbly thank You for the gift of high-profile morons such as Eliot Spitzer, who somehow manage, despite all our flaws and failings, to make us look comparatively good to our wives and girlfriends. We pray to the Lord. Thanks be to God. “She said she’d cut my pecker off, and feed it to the cat. So, that’s good to know.” Mark Steyn has some strong opinions

Compare candidate Burge’s tender care towards his gimp with this.  It’s disgusting.

Ace writes to opine that this Obama mash-up to Depeche Mode’s “Personal Jesus” deserves far greater viewership than it’s received.  Unfortunately, I still don’t know how to embed video here.

Following the InsiderAdvantage/Majority Opinion poll on the Obama-Wright-Trinity controversy discussed here yesterday, I thought it only fair to note two new polls that have better — though not much better — news for Barack Obama. Rasmussen reports that among likely voters who have seen or heard some of Obama’s speech on the controversy, 51% said it was good or excellent, 26% said fair, and 21% gave the Senator’s remarks a grade of