Responding to a Newsweek piece that reveals that the man who leaked details of the Bush Administration’s NSA surveillance program is one Thomas Tamm, Patterico urges prosecution. Normally, I would agree. However, one shocking, sickening detail from the Newsweek piece makes me reluctant to urge prosecution: as a child, Thomas Tamm played under J. Edgar Hoover’s desk. *Shudder* Hasn’t he suffered enough?

In The Time Machine II, we send our hero, Al Gore, back into the late 1920s to invent the internet and prevent the Holocaust. In The Time Machine III, he thwarts the invention of the internal combustion engine. Insty has been having some fun with a leftoid who recently accused him of hypermasculinism, counter-claiming that he’s a “nebbish overlord.” The simple solution is to add the term “stat” to every