Notes on a Zig Zag paper: Since I don't read Andrew Sullivan much anymore, I had no idea he was having a pledge drive in order to stuff is Left pocket with enough money to fund the DNC campaign. I join with other bloggers in urging you to throw your pledge money elsewhere, anywhere. He now has a DNC logo on his site so you know where he stands, bends over. As far as the DNC logo is concerned, after careful study of the picture I have devined that the the logo on Sullivan's site is most probably NOT a donkey but, in keeping with the Sullivan persona, is a picture of a sexless mule which is defined as a cross between a horse and a donkey, an animal that cannot reproduce itself.

Noonan has only a so-so column today but one quote describing Ron Reagan stands out:

He seemed a nicer person years ago when he was dancing in his underpants on Saturday Night Live. He is that unusual person who seems less authentic when not in a tutu.

Then there is this must read book review of Carmen bin Laden's new book. Read the review and you'll buy the book.

He left behind 22 wives, 25 sons and 29 daughters. Yeslam was known to his relatives as "Number Ten," referring to his position in the line of patriarchal succession.

The headline should read: American gasoline users fined $150 million dollars for Shell Oil's fraudulently reporting oil reserves. Instead the Financial Times (of London) blares: Shell pays total of $150m to settle investigations Corporations NEVER pay the fines, it is always the consumers of their products who pay through higher prices or lower stock dividends.