Pun Salad

For a baby boomer, this USA Today article about the inexplicable failure to nominate Bob Dylan's Modern Times for a Best Album Grammy contains a little cognitive stunner:

If you'd told me in (say) 1966, the year The Good, the Bad, and the Ugly and Blonde on Blonde came out, that I'd be reading those two sentences in 2007, I'd have laughed in your face. Clint and Bob—not really inhabitants of the same universe.

Just a few:

• Added The American Scene, a combined effort of three very smart people: Ross Douthat, Steven Menashi, and Reihan Salam.

• Added the Comics Curmudgeon; discover the joy in making fun of For Better or Worse and Gil Thorp.

• Added Granite Geek; with a name like that, how could I not?

• New URLs for the CEI Open Market blog and everyone's favorite real-life libertarian soap opera, Jacqueline Passey.

All are highly recommended for your own periodic visits.

With respect to the recent kerfuffle over candidate John Edwards hiring/firing/hiring Amanda Marcotte and Melissa McEwan for his campaign staff: Jim Geraghty makes a couple of good points. First, they'll be able to hold "Catholics for Edwards" meetings in the church furnace room. Second is a more general point about honest apologies:

Indeed. Either you're:

• Sorry for what you did;

• Not sorry for what you did.