Scatterbrained Day

1. On the absentee ballot for the primaries, one of the candidates for a state office--one of the Republican candidates--was Orly Taitz.  Let me just say that if she turns up on the ballot in the general election I will have one more reason to think less of Republicans than I do of cockroaches.  (As to what I think of cockroaches, I am a New Yorker.  'Nuff said.)
2. Why you have to question the premises of surveys and polls.  The phrasing of the inquiry/statement matters.
3. Hypocrisy as a good:  "...say what you will of hypocrisy, at least it leaves open the possibility of an ethos."  Via Making Light.  Scott Horton on the President's Kill List.
4. Scott Horton poses 6 questions to Jesselyn Radack, former ethics advisor; she cites a case you may remember:

   I then advised that the tainted interrogation should not be used against him in a criminal prosecution. Again my advice was disregarded, and it later disappeared from the office file while the Justice Department was under a court order to produce it.

5. Homeowner's Revolt.
6. Scott Walker under criminal investigation.
7. Higher education in California imperiled by budget cuts.

The rant evaporated, unfortunately.