Hazy Days of Summer

I feel like I've been out of touch for months but it appears not a whole lot of great import happened without me. You can tell it's a slow news cycle when the top buzz at memeorandum is about a blog spat over the intemperate outing of Publius from ObiWi by wingnut Ed Whalen, whom I'm told is smart enough to know better -- not that you can tell by his writing. For the record, I think what he did was petty and wrong but I think his apology was pretty good considering the company he keeps. Besides Publius accepted it as genuine, so it's probably time for someone to start a new spat to amuse the bored bloggers.

Speaking of spats, I see there was a major tiff within the NRCC between Palin and the Congressional GOPers who didn't want to make Newt unhappy. I missed the whole plagiarism thing but DWT has the links at his post. I don't care enough about what Palin is doing to backtrack myself.

I see we're still fighting for transparency on Bush era torture and it appears we're going to lose in the greater cover-up for the near future. But thanks to online activists at least Graham-Lieberman's attempt to cement the cover-up of the photos was thwarted. So there's that.

And I nothing says serious potential world leader like a pair of bright red 'fuck me' sandals. The reason she's putting them on now is you can't really walk very far in heels that high without spraining an ankle.

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