Briar Patch Spotted
By Kos! Don Surber explains all, how the Kossacks notice the presidential polling plummet, fret about the Dems’ 2010 prospects and determine that “seems to make passing legitimate health care reform an absolute political necessity for Democrats.” “By all means do,” comments Surber.  Look, I’m not going to stoop to making cheap jokes about whether there is anything “legitimate” or anything like “reform” about what they are up to now. The party that controls House, Senate and White House is well ahead of the Kos curve and has been fo

No Dithering Around
Decisive presidential action as O leaps into action, orders a full review of how the reality TV crashers managed to take over his party, make him look silly. Politico:  President Barack Obama has ordered a full review into how a Virginia couple managed to make their way into the White House for last week&

Yak Friday!
You can brave the malls if you like. Or you can sit around and chew the fat. Story Corps’ “National Day of Listening” is here. The NPR, CPB-backed effort looks to have young people listen to old people, record the stories, which is a great idea. Avoid the malls, stay home, and talk. You never know what tales the old dears have locked up if you don’t get them talking. You know … stories like the time grandad pummeled an ill-mannered peddler and finally threw him into a horse trough, precipitating a bush trial extravaganza (grandad was fined a shilling, the peddler having be

Give Me Your Tired, Your Poor, Your Huddled Masses …
Of repeat border hoppers wielding chainsaws! Howie Carr with a howler on a document-challenged American’s travails in the courts of Massachusetts. He’s “only committing the crimes that Americans will no longer commit,” but this fraudulent document holder gets slammed with six months for holding off an entire shift of Danvers cops with a running chainsaw. Boston Herald.

American (Double-Reverse) Gorbie
Weird, paradoxical Wall Street Journal article about SecDef Robert Gates’ Afghan war flashbacks notes some of the fundamental differences between the U.S. and Soviet experiences — legitimacy, broad international support, orders of magnitude difference in civilian and military casualties — but only pays passing lip service to the most relevant one under the circumstances. Gen. McChrystal is not fighting a Soviet-style Afghan war, something Gates of all people is in a position to understand. And as you get into the article, it becomes apparent Gates was looking for assurances on a question he must