His Imperial Majesty is most displeased that this Kagan peon would dare to think that his subjects would entitled to “fair use”.  OUTRAGE!

I don’t think the market’s big dump yesterday was due to high-volume trading, nor was it due to human error on some fat-fingered mis-order.

I think it was Chinese hax0rz.

If I disappear, you know why.

Not really. Never met one. I bet I probably would though.
Seems everyone else hates Arizona Nazis right now, which is to say all the conservatives who voted for SB 1070 and Jan Brewer.
Interesting Op-ed in the NYT argues that Arizona had good reason to do this, and that the screaming masses of morons that publicly find it unconstitutional, or just “misguided” or “deeply troubling” (which is actually in the new Model Rules of Civil Procedure) are grandstanding.

…his life.

When Deadspin picks up the story, you know that you’re hosed. Sure, NCHS may suffer from an occasional outbreak of arson, but homosexual serial digital anal rape? Good Lord! I can’t wait to hear the argument “Just because I fingered another guy’s ass doesn’t make me gay.” Is Carmel HS really that analogous to prison life? Go you mighty Greyhounds!

Bill Bennett argues that there are real differences between the (D) and the (R).  I’m not sold.

Others pooh-poohed the notion when teh cipher recently suggested that Senator Evan Bayh might be in hot water. Turns out, he decided that he would quit his job rather than be pushed out; Bayh announced today that he’s not re-running.

…it is hard to imagine either Bayh or Lugar unwillingly leaving office. I don’t care what the political climate, Evan Bayh is about as popular a figure Indiana has.

Get busy imagining, biznatches, apparently he’s not popular enough. At least he didn’t trot out that old trope about “wanting to spend more time with my family.”  This just proves that even a blind squirrel finds the right time twice a day. Or something like that.

Backstory: Rick Perry is the incumbent governor of the State of Texas. He is running for re-election this fall.  No further explanation is necessary:

This Washington Examiner article explains that Indiana’s junior senator might have quite the difficult time getting re-elected; he’s currently polling behind Republican challenger Mike Pence 44% to Pence’s 47%. Not a big deal? That’s not their analysis:

The pattern is clear. Evan Bayh is running far behind the way he ran once Indiana voters had a chance to observe his performance as governor, significantly behind the way he ran in his first race for governor, significantly behind his father’s winning percentages in three Senate races and close only to the percentage his father won when he was defeated in the heavily Republican year of 1980, when Ronald Reagan was carrying Indiana over Jimmy Carter by a margin of 56%-38%.

This is where the Obama administration programs and the Senate health care bill, for which Evan Bayh voted, have put an attractive and well-known Democrat who has shown time and again his ability to run far ahead of his party….

Evan Bayh did not win five statewide races in Indiana, a state that tends to favor the other party, by being stupid. Now the question is whether he is smart enough to get himself out of the hole Barack Obama, Nancy Pelosi and Harry Reid have dug for him—and which he was willing, when the Senate had 60 Democrats, to jump in himself.  

Personally, I find it hard to imagine that Bayh loses this race, but then it was impossible that Martha Coakley would lose in MA to Scott Brown, so stranger things have happened.