Mark Steyn has a couple of must-read play reviews of don’t-bother-to-see plays. He endures this, so you don’t have to.

Well, I can

P0rn is being outsourced, to Brazil.

Will Kerry add this tragedy for American workers to his next stump speech?

I just got an email alert from the Airline Pilot’s Security Alliance:

…Washington, DC – Today the Airline Pilots’ Security Alliance (APSA) alerted its members around the country to Pennsylvania Senator Arlen Specter’s (R-PA) opposition to the arming of America

I’m sure it’s not his hairdresser. It’s probably his family’s hairdresser. And I’m sure that she was flown in on his family’s Gulfstream V, not his.

It’s almost become a cliche in politics about a candidate peaking too soon, but the opposite seems to be happening to Kerry, at least from the standpoint of the Republicans. If it were really true that this were part of the Republican Attack Machine™ they wouldn’t be instigating the medal meltdown now–they’d wait until after the convention, when it’s too late.

There’s a serious danger that the Dems may abandon Kerry if he’s tanking too much in late spring, and replace him with a serious candidate (e.g., Lieberman or Biden). In fact, I wonder if the current medal feeding frenzy means that the press has decided that Kerry doesn’t have a chance, and they’re turning on him now in the hopes that they can make it happen.

On the other hand, given the internecine state of the party, it’s not clear that they can really come up with a better one at this point. Hillary might be eyeing it, but I think that her negatives remain too high to win. People may have forgotten her shady past by 2008, but not yet.

[Update]

Here’s an example of Donkey enthusiasm for their candidate (warning: language).

Glenn wonders why Bush hasn’t fired Tenet. Me, too. Of course, if I’d been president, I’d have replaced him before 911, along with a lot of other Clinton holdovers.

I think that it’s one of his weaknesses–he barely seems capable of firing anybody. The only ones that I can think of that he has are Paul O’Neill, and Jay Garner.

Anyway, if Woodward is correct on this, and Tenet really did convince Bush that Iraqi WMD was a “slam dunk,” what does that do to the credibility of the “Bush lied, people died” crowd, or those who bellow about him “betraying the country”? Not that they ever had much to begin with, of course.

OK, what’s John Effing Kerry whining about now?

I thought that he thought it was a great idea for foreign leaders to be in favor of presidential candidates.

The Branch Davidians were incinerated eleven years ago today, and nine years ago, the Murrah Federal Building was bombed in Oklahoma City. We still don’t know everyone who was involved. In light of that this should stir things up a little.

[Update on Tuesday morning]

Clayton Cramer has more disturbing details from the trial.

How much else did the prosecution suppress in their effort to keep this case neat and tidy?

Good question.

[Another update, a little later]

As Jon Goff points out, there are some things to celebrate on this date as well–the beginning of the first American revolution.

A reminder of an event that makes Michael Moore all the more odious.

Now here’s a shocking headline. In related news, the Pope remains Catholic.

Go read this and find out. And laugh. Or weep.

“But I do maintain that if it were a Stalinist state