What a terrible man Christopher Hitchens is, to throw this in the face of the O! celebration: But, on the last day of his presidency, I want to say why I still do not wish that Al Gore had beaten George W. Bush in 2000 or that John Kerry had emerged the victor in 2004. In Oliver Stone’s not very good but surprisingly well-received film W., there is an unnoticed

Over at Flopping Aces, Wordsmith has up an excellent post on GWB. An excerpt: Here’s the way WaPo reported it: As Bush, in blue academic robes, accepted his award and rose to speak, the graduates raised a sea of yellow protest signs with slogans such as “Conservation, not Consumption,” and “Execute Justice, not People.” Students booed, hissed and heckled the president, and some turned their backs on him, made gagging

Happy Beth Cleaver Day! Goodbye, bubble-headed booby.