Unlike the secretive Booooooosh! administration, Obama’s will be transparently transparent. In fact, it will emit more light than is beamed upon it. In short, it will be, at a minimum, fluorescent. Meanwhile, though, sdferr has noticed in the comments this comment, which, I thought, deserved its very own post: Found at JOM, under a comment by Sara, (our Sara) attributed to City-Data.com: 1. Occidental College records — Not released 2.

GITMO! Bob Owens: You should trust your car to the folks who like the star. Background, for the youngsters.

Barack Obama’s neighborhood newspaper, the Hyde Park Herald, has a longstanding tradition of opening its pages to elected officials-from Chicago aldermen to state legislators to U.S. senators. Obama himself, as a state senator, wrote more than 40 columns for the Herald, under the title “Springfield Report,” between 1996 and 2004. Read in isolation, Obama’s columns from the state capital tell us little. Placed in the context of political and policy

implicates kettle. Barney Franks wants less government intrusion into lifestyle decisions, at least when it comes to pot possession. Obama mau-maus McCain proxy for asking inappropriate voting record question.

Relating to Darleen’s post, yesterday, from Jake Tapper. CAESAR Let me have men about me that are fat; Sleek-headed men and such as sleep o’ nights: Yond Cassius has a lean and hungry look; He thinks too much: such men are dangerous. ANTONY Fear him not, Caesar; he’s not dangerous; He is a noble Roman and well given. CAESAR Also, he is swarthy and has an odd name. Wherefore sent

A manlifesto, at American Digest. AP runs aground. Algal blooms are responsible for over half of beaching incidents, and directly affected by Global Warming. [h/t Insty]

Donald Douglas on the ethos of hatred.

A follow up to my follow up to a reaction against TSI’s eulogy for Solzhenitsyn, only written by Ralph Peters: The show preceding mine featured a young woman, Mahvish Rukhsana Khan, who’s published a book about the poor, innocent, kitten-loving prisoners at Guantanamo. Her interview climaxed with the claim that Guantanamo is the equivalent of the Holocaust. I guarantee you that no one from MoveOn or DailyKos questioned that outrageous

So far from having no understanding of my analogues am I that I will use them even when I understand that I am supplying ammunition for those who would deliberately misread me, and so it is when I reference Iago’s Rodrigo’s speech from Othello I.i. It is in fact more intriguing to me because it implicates me, because it makes me consider myself in that character, in that light. And

Scratch that. Bulletproof bras make a . . . come. (h/t Hot Air Headlines) It lifts and deflects!