Wonkette

* People in Plano, Texas, aren’t “wildly exercised about sodomy,” because they’re too lazy for exercise. [KausFiles]
* Harry Reid disses dead pretend president’s funeral for South American sexy time. [AP]
* This anti-drug propaganda video may actually make you vomit! [Reason Hit & Run]
* Lawyer who accused Karl Rove of treason dies in usual sketchy “leap from building.” [Kurt Nimmo]
* Brave Eagle photographed flying away with an entire living adult fox, which was eaten alive just moments later. [Snopes]

Former Frist speechwriter, think tank “policy analyst,” BET something-or-other, embodiment of “famous-for-DC,” former People 50-most-something, and current talking head Amy Holmes co-hosted The View today. She’s lovely, charming, and smart as a whip, though none of those qualities helped her deal with the shoutiest women on datytime tv (and their pet Republican squirrel, Elisabeth). MORE »

* Jay Tea urges L.A. protesters to refrain from threat-making; real Americans don’t take kindly to it. The blogger compares “immigration advocates” to Seine-side haute protesters, concluding that each group is making unreasonable demands on their respective “system[s].” [Wizbang]
* Michelle Malkin characterizes attendants of the L.A. rally as “divisive militants” and reminds you that their sympathizers lurk in the mainstream. [Michelle Malkin]
* Don Surber believes this is a problem for California — not Bush — to solve. Federal resources remain “better invested” in an undisclosed “elsewhere.” [Don Surber]
* Glenn Reynolds considers the fates of political parties amidst the “backlash” of the protest march. [InstaPundit]
* Mickey Kaus posits immigration, ripe for GOP finesse, as the hot button issue in the midterm elections. Here’s how Republican candidates can play it, with minimal party damage incurred. [Slate]

• “Willful disregard of a law is potentially an impeachable offense. It is at least as impeachable as having a sexual escapade under the Oval Office desk and lying about it later. The members of the House Judiciary Committee who staged the impeachment of President Clinton ought to be as outraged at this situation. They ought to investigate it, consider it carefully and report either a bill that would change the wiretap laws to suit the president or a bill of impeachment.” Thus spake those pinko-liberals from that bastion of Maoism known as…uhm…wait–this is from Barron’s? [The Big Picture] MORE »

• The future of television news is “no more anchors.” Just Wolf Blitzer, pacing in front of a drive-in movie theater screen. [NYM]
• Kaus’s verdict on TimesSelect: “Inhibited writers, inhibited linkers, inhibited dialogue.” [Slate]
• CNN operator sees X on Cheney’s face as not so much an accident but an act of God. [NYP]
• The new Nightline went live. Live, damn it. Did we mention it’s LIVE LIVE LIVE? (Please add nude girls.) [TVNewser]
• Howie Kurtz like Katie Couric for her mind. Or close to it: “Hey, I’m way too professional to think about her legs (though it’s hard not to keep track of her ever-blonder hair).” [WP]

In her article on the issues raised by Howie Kurtz’s CNN gig allowing him to comment on his other gig at the Washington Post, where he also comments on CNN, Kit Seelye interviews Kurtz critics Mickey Kaus and Jack Shafer. Shafer reaches for a metaphor: “This is the duck-billed platypus of journalism, an egg-laying mammal with fur - it’s just something very bizarre.” An egg-laying mammal with fur and perhaps a meth problem, as these critics of Kurtz writing about his employer both work at Slate, which is owned by the Washington Post. As a Corner reader has pointed out, this is something Seelye doesn’t mention. MORE »

An on-going look at solving the mystery of Bob Novak’s bullshit. MORE »