Remember Barry Bonds? Remember when he broke the HR record, and the pundits were all bemoaning the fact that his record was tainted by steroid use? Remember the line du jour? Let’s see, I think it was, “We’ll just have to wait a few years until A-Rod breaks the record, then baseball will be as clean as the driven snow again.” Uh-huh. Ummmm……Bitch Tits? Bitch Tits??  How embarrassing is that? 

NPR: NPR has learned that Supreme Court Justice David Souter is planning to retire at the end of the court’s current term. The court has completed hearing oral arguments for the year and will be issuing rulings and opinions until the end of June. Souter is expected to remain on the bench until a successor has been chosen and confirmed, which may or may not be accomplished before the court

You know, this is unreal, in the technical sense of the term, but even as scientists say that it’s important to maintain the moniker “Swine Flu” as indicative of the species of origination, the linguistic-grievance axis are still all over why it simply must not be so. I wish it were possible to parody these imbeciles. Related: Swine flu influenced by viral marketing guru UPDATE: Swine Flu Tells Sebelius, “I

Gibbs: I’m not really an intentionalist, but I do play one on TV: Gotta love the wink wink nod nod here. It’s as if Gibbs is saying of the naked emperor, “no, those weren’t his balls brushing over the cold cut platter at the buffet table” — and a hundred reporters, having watched those emperor balls scrape the pile of shaved turkey, not only pretend to agree, but they then

lurches hateward. William Creeley at FIRE: Yesterday, in his blog entry discussing the difficult road facing petition candidates for governing board positions at Harvard University and Dartmouth College—and the substantial hostility they face if elected—Kyle provided an excellent overview of the independent campaign, tenure, and eventual dismissal of former Dartmouth Trustee Todd Zywicki. As Kyle usefully recounts, Zywicki, a professor of law at George Mason University School of Law, was

…and gauntlettes. The third party option is starting to look better and better, honestly. And as I’ve noted several times now, I think people will be surprised by how many Democrats a party that adheres to classical liberal principles would attract. Besides. Can we really do much worse? (h/t cj)

…and the One won? As the President intervenes in more and more industries, a key question is how he does it and what he is trying to achieve. Is he trying to reorganize insolvent firms while, as much as possible, preserving the rights of stakeholders as established under existing contracts? Or is he trying to achieve a “fair” outcome as he judges it, regardless of preexisting rules and agreements? I

The Washington Post’s Tom Schales puts on his best critic face and grades the President’s performance last evening: Barack Obama is a truly flabbergasting president. And in a good way — not the way some of his predecessors were. He’s not flabberghastly. When Obama answers a question, you don’t slap your forehead and moan, “Oh, brother!” He is, as guest expert David Gergen noted on CNN after the news conference,

Had she known, Windsor Castle’s most famous resident would not have been amused. A couple were caught having sex on a grass bank outside the Queen’s residence yesterday – as hundreds of shocked tourists looked on in horror and amusement. Apparently unable to control themselves, the drunken pair stripped naked and began having sex in front of the Castle’s Garter Tower in full view of a busy road and shops.

(A Serr8d joint) Not as pretty as Darleen’s pics below.