• AWFUL DEMOCRATS WILL NOT IMMEDIATELY CROWN ARLEN SPECTER: It seems some psychopaths in the Left Wing didn’t get the fucking memo (as shouted by Joe Biden) that NO ONE IS TO RUN AGAINST ARLEN SPECTER for the 2010 Democratic nomination for the Senate, and now Glenn Greenwald has something new to go insane over. [NYT/The Caucus]

• ‘INSECTS PLACED IN A CONFINEMENT BOX’: We made a light joke earlier about Glenn Greenwald goin’ nuts with the highlighter on those four Bush Administration torture memos released today — almost completely unredacted — and man, he did just that. You are required to read some of the shit in these memos. This is our CIA’s War on Terror? Throwing a dumb caterpillar in a dark box but telling the detainees it’s a killer scorpion that will poison their butts? This isn’t SUMMER CAMP. [Glenn Greenwald]

It may be your lucky day, libtards! All you want are DoJ torture memos, uncut, NO REDAX, and now look at the breaking news: “In the fullest account to date of the questioning of al Qaeda suspects, government officials issued long sought documents that catalogue a list of tactics — from sleep and food deprivation to beatings — that Bush lawyers said comported with the law. The memos, which date to 2002, contain few redactions, despite a fierce battle within the Obama administration about the benefits of releasing the information.” TOUCHE, Obama… but rest assured that the very serious and important and serious news blogger Glenn Greenwald is furiously highlighting right now and will soon determine how much you care about so-called “legal statutes.” [WP]

• Ann Coulter is “like Lillian Hellman but without the style or wit.” [Political Animal]
• John Kerry is totally upstaged by the khaki pants of John Mark Karr. [Eschaton]
• Tomorrow, Eric Umansky leaves Slate’s Today’s Papers. Wonkette’s Daily Briefing to suffer. [Romenesko]
• Glenn Greenwald’s passionate 8-part analysis of the warrantless eavesdropping ruling. [Unclaimed Territory]
• Rock group ZombieGutz writes unironicly, touchingly to contemporary church blog: “like stated by the great ryanGUTZ, we are trying, and in most cases, succeeding in reaching a whole different genre of youth…” [Slice of Laodicea]

• Glenn Greenwald goes long on the anti-Murtha movement, posts his letter to lawyer Mark Zaid. [Glenn Greenwald]
• More on Rumsfeld’s Senate Testimony, Think Progress commenter says: “Got an answer for everything. I work with a dude like this. It starts with a conversation about dogs and ends with a conversation about umbrellas…” [Think Progress]
• Self-proclaimed punky Josh Wolf remains in jail for refusing to turn over video footage of a protest. [Romensko]
• Ned Lamont apparently doesn’t find blackface jokes funny, plays dumb: “I don’t know anything about the blogs, I’m not responsible for those, I have no comment on ‘em…Independent blogs, I can’t say anything about it.” [Michelle Malkin]
• WP’s David Broder: “reflects the conventional wisdom of his clique back at them. That’s his audience. Once upon a time that clique had power and influence. They imagine they still do, but it’s fading, and not because of the rising power of blogofascism. It’s because the Bush administration doesn’t care what the Grand Old Men of Washington think. They’ve made that perfectly clear.” At least he’ll have a lot of drinking buddies when he’s put to pasture. [Eschaton]