JEFF JACOBY: The government's college money pit. The government funds loans and keeps the interest rate low to encourage students to go further into debt to fund a baccalaureate (or higher) degree for which the employment possibilities are nil. Insanity, indeed.

WE JUST INSTALLED new countertop sinks in our master bathroom.

Our cat Diamond likes them so much she's decided to use a planter on the back porch as her new 'countertop potty'.

DEREK HUNTER: A Plumber To Snake The DC Drain. Wurzelbacher's campaign website is here.

SO NOW THE US CAN BORROW MORE. Demand for Credit in Europe Collapses.

JOHN RANSOM: Where Liberals Really Suck Eggs. Ransom responds to his commenters; some are hilarious. Read them all.

HEH. A DENTIST pulled out all her ex-boyfriend’s teeth after he dumped her for another woman – who has now left him because he is toothless. OK, it's not really funny, but you can't help but laugh....

LEFTISM AT WORK: Chaperones included in new Secret Service conduct rules. Instead of firing the miscreants and making it absolutely clear that such behaviour will not be tolerated, the administration assigns even more bureaucrats to 'chaperone' and make sure it will absolutely, positively never happen again.

What a crock.

MARK STEYN: Cuisines from my stepfather and other exploding cigars. "It’s not just that Obama ate the dog, but that he’s screwing the pooch."

Read it all.

THE MAN OF STEAL.

FOOD POLICE, run amok. There ought to be a law that no government entity can have more than, say, five regulatory agencies.