The Dish

Sean Bugg explains:

There’s a part of me that’s always thinking that the bisexuals are getting the joys of homo transgression while reaping the benefits of hetero assimilation.

The phone rings. Alex Massie thinks of the Duke of Wellington.

Even with the money he raised off the NYT article, McCain only brought in $12 million this month.

The video:

A reader writes:

For the record, the following current Senators have not held prior elected office:

Mel Martinez
Ted Kennedy
Amy Klobuchar
Chuck Hagel
Hillary Clinton
Elizabeth Dole
Lamar Alexander
Orin Hatch
Robert Bennett
John Warner
Jim Webb
Herb Kohl

There are lots of reasons to dislike the way political power is acquired in America. But why are Elizabeth Dole and Hillary Clinton subjected to a kind of skepticism that one never hears about, for example, Lincoln Chaffee or Evan Bayh? What is less reputable about nepotism-by-marriage than about nepotism-by-birth? I struggle to see how anything but gender plays the primary role in this dynamic.

There is, to my mind, no valid distinction between marital nepotism and other sorts. Glad to have this info on the table.

Some didn’t buy it:

I had some extra time so I thought I’d do a quick survey of a blogpost at the NYTimes on the Clinton red phone ad. Of the 95 responses, I counted 19 positive responses for Clinton, 69 for Obama, and 7 that were too close to call.

Another former Reaganite shifts.

Much, much milder than Obama on Farrakhan. And Farrakhan didn’t hold a rally for BHO. Can you imagine the vapid outcry if such a thing happened? And yet the GOP parades its bigots in the open. Just like Huckabee and the Reconstructionists. There really are double standards for white fundamentalists, aren’t there?

Paul Burka senses an earthquake of sorts.

One reader response:

Why bother coming here (getting a visa, the travel, feeling out-of-place) to attack Americans, when one frustrated youth with jihadist tendencies from wherever can simply wander into Iraq or Afghanistan and do his best to take out US military personnel in uniform? There, you can at least blend into the local population, target not unarmed US civilians in shopping malls, -but uniformed, patriotic, heavily-armed Americans (who are light-years away from home and family, and all that’s familiar) – and be regarded as a hero to millions … all at the same time.

The flypaper theory works, in other words.