Hysterical: An artist’s sculpture has been rejected by the Royal Academy of Arts which has instead opted to display the wooden support it was put on. David Hensel, 64, from East Grinstead, West Sussex, was told the laughing head would be part of the summer exhibition. But at a preview he found that just a piece of wood intended to support the head was on display on the plinth. The

First, from Hot Air, an email encouraging supporters of “Hadji Girl” songster Cpl Belile to resist the PC sensibilities that have turned an ironic, fictional narrative set to music into the newest incarnation of the Danish Mohammed cartoon gambit—a way to delegitimize criticism of “Islamic culture” by claiming “offense” and decrying the “insensitivity” of the offender: I just got off the phone with [a source in the Pentagon]. The Cpl.

Via email, Dario R. writes: Your Rovegate title is accurate on more than one level.  Even after the announcement Leopold was claiming his sources were correct and that Rove would be indicted.  As you read the interview you can actually see Jason Leopold formulating his Rather excuse and that is that Rove really was indicted four weeks ago, just something changed between then and now.  So he was indicted before

*must credit protein wisdom* Jason Leopold is reporting that Rove also had an Iced Caramel Macchiato (venti), and that the bagel he was eating (poppy) was smothered in lox, capers, raw onion, and pig’s blood—but even TruthOut is approaching that last bit with caution.  Developing…

Rove attorney Robert Luskin speaks to a bit of new media overreach, specifically, to partisan attempts by many bloggers and (fringe) journalists—the vast majority of whom list leftward, politically—to practically will his client’s phantom indictment.  From the NY Observer, “Rove Case Lawyer Blackberries Karl: ‘Fitzgerald Called’”: Mr. Luskin does not gnash his teeth at Mr. Fitzgerald. “It’s not winning the lottery,” he said of the Rove case. “It’s just avoiding

As many of you know, I’m not a fan of having National Guard troops patrol the southern border, and not simply because Bill O’Reilly is for it (though that certainly is a factor), but because I have long believed that any actual deployment of Guard troops to act as immigration police would be more ostentatious than substantive—itself a good thing, because the first shooting of an unarmed illegal by a

…to the US Army, which today turns 231—though to look at it, you’d swear it couldn’t possibly be a day over 40.  And it still moves pretty well for its age, too—as quite a few erstwhile “freedom fighters” in Iraq and Afghanistan would be the first to tell you. If they weren’t off humping white raisins in Paradise, that is. **** (h/t STACLU; see also, My Vast Right Wing Conspiracy)

“So another ‘council’ of pale faces has decided to play scalp the Indian and recommend my termination, so what?  What did you expect?  The basic situation here is that there was a call by high officials in the state, notably the governor but hardly restricted to the governor, for my termination clear back last February.  Still, this entire investigation into my academic work has been both illegitimate and illegal—just another