Short takes

As we all knew would happen, John Bolten has been a disaster at the UN. I ended up posting at the DetNews on that one. Phony crony 'diplomacy'.

I've been working so I haven't really followed the big Kos Konvention but I did read a few posts and this Slate piece kind of sums up the sense I'm getting about it. It's a Natalie Holloway moment and it will pass. Dickerson at Slate gets the quote of the day.

We are probably just under five months away from a wave of coverage positing that bloggers weren't that powerful after all. After we build up the Markos regime, we will help to tear it down.

This editorial makes me feel guilty that I haven't blogged about Kennedy's article on voting fraud yet. In my defense, I'd say that I thought it too important to do a throw out post on and I've been working. I want to do a longer post on this but for the moment I'd say that it's interesting a Kennedy who gets drunk gets days of press attention, but a Kennedy making sense with sober and alarming allegations is virtually ignored.

Coulter conundrum? No, let me be perfectly clear. Coulter is an uncouth cunt whose trash mouth would be locked in a prison for the criminally insane if she wasn't rich and famous.