It's going to happen. I've started a "Miers Withdrawal Watch" (including continuing coverage of reactions from around the blogosphere) at The Reaction. Click here for Part 1. Highlights: According to The Washington Times, "[t]he White House has begun making contingency plans for the withdrawal of Harriet Miers as President Bush's choice to fill a seat on the Supreme … [Read more...] about Miers Withdrawal Watch — Part 1

A couple of odd stories from CNN, both car-related. I've got the links here. … [Read more...] about The weird and the wacky (car stories)

Is he praying or urinating? Or it is just his corrupt little life flashing before his eyes? I've got more on DeLay's first day in court over at The Reaction, with some other reaction from the blogosphere. Including: Fellow Tufts grad Majikthise is leading the way with her "perp walk" watch (including some great photos). Scroll down for all her recent posts. … [Read more...] about DeLay in court — justice vs. partisanship

(No, not Tom DeLay.) It seems that a Norway rat has outsmarted scientists from the University of Auckland (New Zealand). A great (and quite humorous) story. … [Read more...] about The smartest rat in the world

In case you haven't heard, one of the winners of Wednesday's Powerball lottery was... Senator Judd Gregg of New Hampshire. Seems the rich get richer, even when it's all about luck. … [Read more...] about Powerball: More power to the powerful

There's little good news you can read about the Harriet Miers' nomination, if you're among the (small) group of people aggresively and enthusiastically pushing the nomination of George Bush's lawyer to the Supreme Court. For instance, note this major defection by National Review's Jonah Goldberg:It's not just that Miers was in favor of racial quotas — we'd pretty much … [Read more...] about Miers Loses Another Conservative Voice

Dean Esmay has some ideas here. Our view. He's on target. The problem with TMV, though, is that he comes from a news background and there will be stories that break that he might not want to cover but his journalistic "juices" get going and he's compelled to cover them. A lot depends on how each person views their site. Is it strictly opinion (nothing wrong with that)? Or does … [Read more...] about How To Avoid Blog Burnout

My thoughts on the Kansas Supreme Court ruling unanimously declaring that so-called "Romeo and Juliet Laws" mitigating certain classes of statutory rape have to be applied equally to hetero- and homosexual persons. The opinion of the court can be found here. … [Read more...] about Equal Rights Roll Through Kansas

It sounds as if divorce court should get ready to put a new case on its schedule: the New York Times V Judith Miller. It's getting ugly out there in the Plamegate case in anything involving Miller and is that a surprise? She was controversial before the scandal broke, went to jail in the Plamegate case (forcing many of America's journalists who jealously defend the right to … [Read more...] about Are Judith Miller And The New York Times Headed For A Divorce?

TMV's posts may start a bit late today. The reason: TMV completed a 600 mile drive yesterday (and posted along the) way. So he'll get getting up a bit later. BUT our always independent co-bloggers may have something to say before that. NOTE: TMV will be on a reduced posting schedule for some of Sunday and Monday. But, again, new always-scintillating items will appear on … [Read more...] about TMV’s Posts Will Start Late Today

The pollsters at Marist University take an early look at the state of the campaign for the Democratic and Republican presidential primaries and find the following: Democratic Primary Hillary Clinton — 41% John Kerry — 17% John Edwards — 14% Joe Biden — 5% Wesley Clark — 3% (Evan Bayh, Tom Vilsack, and Mark Warner all at 2% or below) Republican … [Read more...] about An Early Look at the 2008 Primaries

My little brother is visiting me at college, hence the lack of posting. But, if you're desperate for stuff, here's my weekend reading list for you. … [Read more...] about All Quiet on the Carleton Front…

"I Drew This" on Church & State … [Read more...] about Cartoon Interlude

See here for all the latest on Hurricane Wilma. StormTrack is cautious, but: "It's looking like Wilma may be much weaker than thought when she approaches Florida... A Category 2 landfall in Florida is most likely." But, of course, things could change. … [Read more...] about Wilma hits Mexico

Should you be interested, here's my latest review of conservative reaction to the Miers debacle, mostly negative, along with some liberal replies. … [Read more...] about Demoralizing Harriet

Blogger Pam Spaulding was interviewed by MTV Online and the article is now posted: Diary to the Masses: Blogging Teens Learn the Pros & Cons of Publishing to the Web … [Read more...] about “Pam’s House Blend” Featured at MTV Online

DeLay's mugshot Smile, Tom DeLay, you've been charged with conspiracy and money laundering. And -- to quote someone who recently spent some time behind bars -- it's a good thing. (I've previously written about this dirty rotten scoundrel here and here.) … [Read more...] about The end of Tom DeLay

It's part of a larger quasi-conspiracy theory on the left, but it does seem that Mr. Russert has some explaining to do. … [Read more...] about Was Tim Russert involved in The Plame Game?

If you need a bit of a break from politics and, like me, you're into food, I've got a post over at The Reaction on Rachael Ray, America's #1 TV cook. I go back and forth, but there's something to be said for culinary passion with a common touch, for bringing an appreciation of good food and a dash of experimentation to Fast Food Nation. … [Read more...] about Rachael Ray’s culinary empire

(Cross-posted at The Reaction.) That is, how Michael Brown ate dinner while New Orleans flooded and people died. Uh, yeah, nice job, Brownie: In the midst of the chaos that followed Hurricane Katrina, a Federal Emergency Management Agency official in New Orleans sent a dire e-mail to Director Michael Brown saying victims had no food and were dying. No response came from … [Read more...] about How Michael Brown fiddled while Rome burned