Politics and other nightmares

Ya'll have fun watching John at the coliseum:

A few nights ago I sat down with great expectations to watch my neighbor John Mellencamp on Real time with Bill Maher.  

Much has been written about the hypocricy of rich and famous greens who use "carbon offsets" as a way to live the good life while lecturing the rest of us on the need to scale back. In some cases, it seems to be much worse than that:

Guess this is why Notre Dame got stomped. Instead of paying attention to the prayers of the football players, God was messing around with politics:

Sioux City, Ia. - God's will is for Iowa to have the first-in-the-nation caucus, Democratic presidential candidate Bill Richardson told a crowd here Monday.

Even the federal government can't bring itself to do anything about "undocumented workers," and Sheriff Ken Fries wants to track the activities of "illegal aliens"?

The Allen County Sheriff's Department is one of the first in Indiana to track crimes committed by illegal aliens.

But will it translate into helping rid the community of that unwanted influence?

Freedom of speech. OK. Religion in the public square. Check. Upholding the values of the First Amendment. On board. But what about when the sermonizing is amplified?

Last week, a U.S. senator's life fell apart in public, and there was hardly a shred of sympathy for him. An 18-year-old beauthy pageant contestant was savaged to the nation's great flee. The U.S. attorney general gave a resignation speech in which he felt compelled to disparage his father's whole life. GeorgeWill:

New York Times headline from Tuesday: "Bill Clinton's challenge: Keep focus on his wife." Hope he does it better this time around than last.

I missed this the first time around in late July, but somebody else in the blogosphere linked to it, an editorial in the Indianapolis Star, which, once upon a time, was honestly conservative.

Good lord, what ignorant drivel:

You'd think it would be impossible for a Democrat these days to come with a plan for extending government's reach that hasn't been discussed to death already. So I have to give John Edwards credit. He is scaring the bejeebers out of me: