Mickey Kaus has up an excellent post on why John Edwards’s . . . peccadilli are newsworthy.  I’d like to add, under heading 2, Hypocrisy, this telling video of Edwards accepting a Father of the Year award nine months before the birth of Rielle Hunter’s daughter, complete with a humble admission that Elizabeth is a better parent and a moving tale about his dead son Wade. Dickens couldn’t have invented

To the couple of examples of borderline insanity Darleen points out below, you can add Bob Herbert hallucinating racism in a McCain ad (dog whistle for the hearing impaired), and Alter and Olbermann subsequently co-hallucinating phalluses and miscegenation after dropping a couple tabs of dementia.  Much more of this and we’ll see these guys spontaneously deconstruct on live television. (h/t Hot Air Headlines)

When he’s in a bar and has been waiting too long for a beer, my father might say, “Hell of a place to start a bar.” I have been continuing the tradition. Update: added “in a bar” because otherwise this makes no sense, much like everything else I write.

Forwarded by Karl: From: “Simon Owens” Date: August 2, 2008 8:28:09 AM MDT To: “Jeff Goldstein” Subject: Karl, Politico isn’t the only ones engaging in sock puppetry Hey Karl, I remember reading a post you wrote back in June about Politico employees going into comment sections and engaging in sock puppetry. I don’t know if you’ve heard about this yet, but a memo just leaked from CNN that openly encourages

Rick Moran has an excellent post up about being branded a “racist,” and the Procrustean bed of lefty interpretation. He mentions Allah Pundit, and Jeff Goldstein, in particular, as having articulated the defense against such practices.

Just ridiculous.  In response to TSI’s eulogy of Solzhenitsyn, comes this: Earlier this evening, I blogged at Liberty Street about Alan Brinkley’s review of Jane Mayer’s new book, “The Dark Side.” At the very end of the post, having just heard about Alexander Solzhenitsyn’s death, I wrote the following: Interestingly, just as I was about to wrap up this post, I read the news that Alexander Solzhenitsyn died today, at

“What did I do, officer?” “Your tire inflation is suboptimal, sir.”

Wonderful news! Our protests have paid off! Now, let’s get back to work on Mumia!

Go check out the video of this (sorry) inarticulate asshat perfesser making a complete hash of his accusations against Obama after heckling him at a town hall meeting in Florida. What a dope. However, he did elicit this from the Man Of Hope: “I was a civil rights lawyer. I have passed, I passed — hold on a second –I passed the first racial profiling legislation in Illinois. I passed

From Hot Air Headlines comes the news that Kafka’s porn stash has been exposed to the light of day, a blow to Kafkaphiles who would like to preserve the great writer’s image as . . . a normal Joe? On the other hand, I don’t think even Kafka’s dark imagination perverse enough to serve us up something more twistedly pornographic than David Brown. Perhaps most interesting about this publication is