OBAMA’S DIRECTOR OF NATIONAL INTELLIGENCE to resign tomorrow. It’s getting so crowded under Obama’s bus that pretty soon he’s going to have to get another.

It’s going to be a rough 2-1/2 years until we can get some adult supervision in the White House.

REFLECTIONS ON SMALL TOWN AMERICA. The phrase “quiet dignity” comes to mind.

OBAMA PLANS TO PUNISH BP WITH TAX HIKE. Neal Boortz comments:

Hmm that's an interesting concept ... using the tax code as a method of punishment. [A]ll this time I thought that the purpose of taxation was to raise revenue, not to punish people whom politicians may not, for whatever reason, like.

And follow the link in Boortz’ post; it’s interesting to me that we have to go to a UK newspaper to get real US news.

WOUNDED WARMISTS ATTACK: The Anthropogenic Global Warming [AGW] community is behaving exactly like the UFO cult studied by psychologist Leon Festinger in his classic study of cognitive dissonance.

That’s probably a bit harsh on the UFO cultists.

LOS ANGELES ‘BOYCOTTERS’ respond to Arizona’s challenge: “When the going gets tough in LA, apparently the tough … cry about getting threatened.”

MORE LIKELY the message from God is “Do it right the first time, dumbsh*ts.”

INDIANA REP. MARK SOUDER resigns after admitting affair.

The Washington Examiner’s Chris Stirewalt adds insult to injury [5th item]: “Souder is so strange-looking that he might be commended under different circumstances for finding not one but two women who would have constituent relations with him.”

VOTERS MAY BE FED UP with Congressional pork. Ya think?

A GUIDE TO THE MANNED SPACE CONTROVERSY: Rand Simberg explains the manned space program(s), relatively successfully. It’s a good exposition, and I disagree on only two relatively minor points.

One, the Vision for Space Exploration, announced in 2004, may have been a sea-change policy, but it was never sold to the public as anything beyond Constellation. This was a serious error.

And two, whether NASA “got the details wrong” in developing Constellation in lieu of immediately commercializing manned launch services, there is still a need for Ares until “Pan American World Spaceways” can become viable.

Previous posts here and here.

IT’S ‘EVERYBODY DRAW MOHAMMED DAY’ and Zombie explains why it’s important.

THE APOLOGY TOUR CONTINUES and Sarah Palin notices.

What is it with these Administration nitwits? Are they so ashamed of America that they’re determined to bring it down to their level?

FINALLY: some intelligent thoughts about the Gulf of Mexico oil spill.

Decades after the Exxon Valdez spill, the technology used to clean up spills is virtually unchanged: barges, booms, burning, dispersing, scrubbing. The problem with that is, these methods weren't effective then, and they aren't now.

So if cleanup is costly, ineffective and potentially harmful, then aren't we just doing it for appearances? (And not actual appearances, but, worse, political appearances?) Indeed, if we can just get over the way it sounds, "the cost of doing nothing" might actually be far less than the cost of doing something.

While we’re at it, why not try to make ‘doing nothing’ - or more precisely, doing little - profitable? As the C.W. Roberts folks suggested at the end of their video, recover the oil-soaked straw, dry it, and use it for fuel.