Remember when Charles Barkley insisted that athletes aren’t role models?  At least now he can’t be charged with hypocrisy or letting kids down.  Because he is being charged with DUI -

Loudmouth liberal Charles Barkley was arrested last night in Arizona. … Barkley is talking about running for governor of Alabama, as a democrat, possibly in 2010.

I’d say so much for running for office, but politicians have not been sanctioned by voters after doing far worse.

My favorite – and oft linked – writer from Wizbang, Jay Tea, now blogs at Commentary as J.G. Thayer.  His latest sums up Israel’s failure to accept a truce:

In other words: if Israel stops the bombing and ends the blockade, Hamas will think about stopping the rockets.

Can’t imagine why they’d pass up an offer like that!

This may inspire a hearty chorus of “duh!” but I just discovered that sun isn’t strictly necessary when cold brewing tea in a pitcher.  I put the water and tea bags in a pitcher on the counter of my depressingly dark kitchen and wandered off without putting it near a window.  A couple of hours later the tea was brewed, and (as Luzianne decaf always is) tasty.  Am I the last person in the south to have discovered this phenomenon?

They say -

The threat of 9/11 ignored. The threat of Iraq hyped and manipulated. Guantánamo and Abu Ghraib. Hurricane Katrina. The shredding of civil liberties. The rise of Iran. Global warming. Economic disaster. How did one two-term presidency go so wrong? A sweeping draft of history—distilled from scores of interviews—offers fresh insight into the roles of George W. Bush, Dick Cheney, and other key players.

Newsbuster’s response is going to leave a mark.

Oh, and and that phrase, “oral history” – I don’t think it means what they think it means, given that they didn’t podcast or otherwise record it.

And by disgraceful I mean the Protestant stats, not the Catholic ones. ONLY 25% of Evangelical Christians read the Bible on a daily basis along with 20% of other Protestants.