From Cape Cod — See Ya Soon

Two weeks of sun & fun — although it’s raining heavily at the moment.

Have wifi in the cabin and may keep in touch. Otherwise, see ya soon!

Bush Role Model Found

Michael Mukasey urged Congress to give him a spanking new ass-cover:

Straw Men Don’t Repair the Universe

Time was, the Albany office of the Department of Motor Vehicles lived up to its stereotype: dingy, chaotic, and staffed with ornery people — or, to be fair, people probably rendered ornery by their dingy and chaotic surroundings.

How Manly Men Respond

In the real world , this would appear to be a non-story:

In an e-mail to the McCain campaign, Opinion Page Editor David Shipley said he could not accept the piece as written, but would be “pleased, though, to look at another draft.”

The Quadrennial CYA Quest

On Chris Matthews’ Sunday Gaborama, an icicle of insight:

The New Iraq Doctrine is a Matter of Time

Troops in Afghanistan. Negotiations with Iran. Barack Obama gets to see how his foreign policy ideas might work, since the Republicans are busy adopting them. Of course, the people putting these ideas in play are the same people who accidentally leaked this to everybody in the USA:

Sanctions Make the Law Real

Rep. Linda Sánchez  makes a good case for it:

Comparing Partitions

This month there are those recognizing this fourth anniversary (the decision was announced, actually, a week ago):

Palestinian leaders today said they would seek UN sanctions against Israel after the international court of justice ruled that the barrier being built around the West Bank was illegal and should be pulled down.

Big Clunky Machines

Ever since I was little I voted. Even when I was in (what at the time was called) Junior High, there were these big honking lever voting machines we’d use for student council voting — just to give us a feel for how the real grown-ups voted. I voted on those same big steel lever machine in in 2006 because  (drumroll)

Dancing With Them That Brung Ya

Governor David Paterson told the Alliance for School Choice that he’d like to lift New York’s cap on charter schools once and for all. This is not necessarily part of his march rightward past the center and straight into the Swamps of Wingnuttia, because he has had ties to school choice advocates for years.