numnut

* ftr - i have officially zero interest in the drunk danny devito thingy - apart from one thing. DeVito called Preznit Blinky a 'numnut' - and CNN bleeped it out. I was heretofore unfamiliar with the term - but it sounds kinda innocuous. would they have bleeped it if he called Clooney a numnut? if not, there's something seriously wrong with this picture.

* spencer:

"All I want for Christmas is for people to stop settling on one sect of Islam as the ultimate enemy and then convincing themselves that the opposing sect holds the answer."

* belgraviadispatch:

"Put differently, it is no longer easy to just holler "Carter!", or "Nixon!", and assume you've just proven your case Bush isn't as terrible as all that. At very best, it's debatable, as the policy blunders have been that egregiously bad."

* science geeks will love this: "Scientists Unravel Mystery of Ancient Greek Machine"