Pun Salad

… just to babble in the back room:

• Consumer note: I got paper mail from the "Domain Registry of America" urging me to send them money for domain renewal services. Looks very much like a bill. (Amusingly, it was addressed to "NONE PAUL SAND", based a bit too literally on punsalad.com's whois data.)

  The Wikipedia page for "Domain Registry of America" shows the company is hovering on the edge of illegality, and has been doing so for many years, so if you get a similar notice… well, as one guy put it: that's why they make shredders.

• Our periodic look at presidential candidate phoniness is restricted to the current campaign, but Ed Morrissey has retrospective phoniness from four years back, as then-candidate Joe Biden threw some red meat to Iowa progressives:

  And I want to make it clear, and I'll make it clear to the President: that if he takes this nation to war in Iran, without Congressional approval, I will make it my business to impeach him.

  But (as we've said before): that was then, this is now. Ed points out not only the phoniness, but also more than a bit of stupidity: Biden, being a Senator at the time, had no input into even a theoretical impeachment, that being the responsibility of the House.

• At Language Log, Mark Liberman puzzles over the utterances of Diane Sawyer on ABC World News last night:

  And it is hard to imagine
  or to underestimate or overestimate
  what it took in those heart-pounding moments when the pilots had to eject
  the incredible velocity of that

  But that Sarah Palin sure is stupid, isn't she?

  (Free verse formatting supplied by Liberman.)