Anybody else beginning to suspect that when it comes to the prospect of picking Supreme Court justices (among other things), Republican politicos are completely different animals from the conservatives who elected them?

High winds, lots of rain, lots of broken tree limbs littering roads and property.  My CITIZEN JOURNALIST’S INSTICTS tell me to expect more of same—including lots of broken shutters and some light flooding—until the storm passes.  Developing… related:  Despite its ferocious category 3 pounding of the Gulf Coast, Hurricane Dennis has brought with it no sign of missing Alabama teen Natalee Holloway—though, for what it’s worth, Florida residents interviewed for

From “The Mother of All Connections,” Stephen Hayes and Thomas Joscelyn in the July 18 Weekly Standard: For many, the debate over the former Iraqi regime’s ties to Osama bin Laden’s al Qaeda network ended a year ago with the release of the 9/11 Commission report. Media outlets seized on a carefully worded summary that the commission had found no evidence “indicating that Iraq cooperated with al Qaeda in developing

“Well, like they say—if a rotary saw were cherry jam, Uncle Cletis would still have all his toes.” (Lewisburg, West Virginia)

The nature of the threat is not yet known.  Developing… From the BBC: Police in Birmingham in the Midlands are evacuating the city centre. Earlier they issued a warning they had received intelligence suggesting a threat to the area. “Our response needs to be proportionate in the action we’re taking and in informing the public,” a spokeswoman for West Midlands Police said. Police are now closing down the Birmingham Broad

1.  Craig C sends along several links, all of them worth checking out.  First, Tim Blair investigates a few nascent conspiracy theories springing up around the London bombings and in the process, develops one of his own.  Also by way of Tim Blair, Andrew of Non-Trivial Solutions pens an open letter to the London terrorist bombers. 2. “You don’t know profiling until you’ve killed a family of six.” Courtesy The

True enough.  But it turns out our little armor-plated friend is something of an anglophile.  So, while he’s not really up to dancing today, he could, probably, be talked into a pint or two—after which he’ll gladly join you in a game of darts, and maybe even a bar fight against whatever yuppified American wankers try switching off Manchester United in favor of a stupid Rockies game.

Dear Justin, You do know that I am a Jew, right?  So best not to press your luck, buddy.  Because I know people, if you get my meaning. Yours in sinister portent, protein wisdom ps.  The Stratfor brief you claim that I seem unaware of is actually linked in the very post you reference.  Not that I’d expect you’d read my entire entry before misrepresenting it, of course.  BECAUSE THEN

I was greeted this morning by hundreds of spammed trackbacks, and, being the obsessive compulsive site sentinnel that I am, I was compelled to do battle with each and every one of them—immediately!—until the last one was vanquished, its insidious plans, such as they were (does anybody ever click on these things?), foiled once and for all by my menacing willingness to repeat the same deletion process over and over