A chastened Ed Whelan makes a full apology to publius who accepts so we officially lower the Whelan Threat Level from “asshole” to “occasionally dickish when provoked”.

Shorter Ross Douthat:

BigHo honcho Andrew Breitbart:

Democrats long ago jettisoned America’s melting-pot ideal – E Pluribus Unum (“Out of Many, One”) – because it imperils their campaign for permanent rule. Splitting the country into separate identity groups and playing them against each other works a lot better. And anyone who disagrees is a racist.

Shakira Isabel Mebarak Ripoll, who performs pseudonymously and irresponsibly as Shakira, gets a nice write-up in the New York Times about her charitable work

Inventing a new genre, “Takuan Seiyo” (his real name unknown until he says something irresponsible) combines the taxi-cab linguistic explorations of Tom Friedman with the “9/11 made me a cocktail party conservative ” confession and creates the ” I Swear This Really Happened” letter to Anti-Obama Penthouse Forum

First off, I just want top say that if William A. Jacobson believes that exposing conservatives who commit adultery when, say, attending out-of-town conventions or legal conferences is wrong, I have no reason to question his sincerity, motivations, or possibly overwhelming feelings of guilt he might feel when he sits down to dinner with his family and they bow their heads in prayer to a, hopefully, forgiving God.

Bitter out-of-power wingnut welfare recipient Ed Whelan fucks up explaining a joke, gets called out on it, and goes Full Metal Asshole…

Earlier in the week playboy.com published an online story by Guy Cimbalo called So Right it’s Wrong ….

Sarah Palin celebrates Alaska, the last frontier:

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M. Edward Whelan III Esq. LLC M-O-U-S-E (who worked in the Bush OLC during the “Can we crush the testicles of boys? Really? Cool! Kthnxbai!” days) has been working overtime trying to derail the nomination of that Mexirican judge lady.