What Sound and Fury Signify Today

They’re still yelling “Denver! Denver!” and the Democratic Rules Committee left an hour ago.

Would Someone Kindly Tell the Partisan Clergy to Shut Up?

No, not that guy you’ve seen all over Fox and CNN. This guy! Msgr. Jim Lisante, of the Diocese of Rockville Centre, delivering an invocation (!!) at the New York Republican gathering yesterday.

Teh Nooz Sees Its Reflection

According to the myth, the handsome Narcissus happened upon his reflection in a pond and became so enraptured with his looks that he could not take his eyes away. Eventually he withered away and was turned into the flower that now bears his name. As does a relevant personality disorder. 

This Kid is Smarter than Your Kid

(h/t stillman and MsLibrarian)

– or mine. No offense intended. And you, me, and they have a ways to go to make a contribution like this:

Florida, It Figures

Sara Posner raises a wrinkle or two in the Florida electoral calculus:

Getting What We Paid for on the Border

And this development was not considered?

The pattern has become familiar: Customs officers wave in vehicles filled with illegal immigrants, drugs or other contraband. A Border Patrol agent acts as a scout for smugglers. Trusted officers fall prey to temptation and begin taking bribes.

Lieberman in WSJ: A Study in Sleaze

As the saying goes, to be forewarned is to be forearmed. Thus many years ago, when I had the opportunity, I developed an upper-level undergraduate survey course on qualitative communication analysis. In everyday English, that would be “all about crap detection.” I figured it was a small service to humanity, and students made the course quite popular. There just isn’t enough crap detection training going on.

If there were, Senator Joseph Lieberman’s op-ed of four days ago wouldn’t have made the Wall Street Journal. It would have made the Sand Lake Advertiser, but only because the latter journal, as I recall it, generously published most anything.

UCC Off the Hook — Because IRS Plays Catch and Release

Good news, albeit an “it feels so good to stop banging your head against the wall” kind of good.

Today the United Church of Christ, the national church to which presidential candidate Senator Barack Obama belongs, announced that the Internal Revenue Service has found “that the activity about which we had concern did not constitute …a violation of the requirements of the requirements of section 501(c)(3).”

In Case You’re Bored With That Other Horse Race

The Times Union’s Capitol Confidential blog has a nice feature.

There’s been quite a bit of movement over the past week in race for Senate and now that the races are heating up, we’ll put together a weekly digest of the ins and outs of the Senate races.

Atrocious in Alabama

The fruits of Rove continue to rot on the ground.

Why was Don Siegelman persecuted? Why was it so important to get him out of the Alabama Governorship and into jail? So this could be: