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From watching President Bush’s interview with Irish television two observations become apparent:

Bush truly is incoherent
His incoherence runs past mere mispeaking, he is either dissembling or ignorant

At one point Bush runs down a list of democracies in the Middle East. Even given the paucity of countries in that region that fit the description “democracy” or ” [...]

From McSweeny’s epnoymous list If Charles Bukowski Had Written Children’s Books:
Give Up Now
Kind of sums up a whole career right there.

From a Rolling Stone Roundtable discussion on the war and President Bush [emphasis mine]:
Biden: About six months ago, the president said to me, “Well, at least I make strong decisions, I lead.” I said, “Mr. President, look behind you. Leaders have followers. No one’s following. Nobody.”
(via Kevin Drum)

The A’s have been desperate, desperate and really really desperate for a competent relief pitcher.
I do hope that today’s trade for Astro’s closer Octavio Dotel will relieve their desperation.
Dotel, 30, is 0-4 with a 3.12 ERA and 14 saves in 17 chances in his first year as a closer following the trade of three-time [...]

From Taegan Goddard’s political wire comes this excerpt of an excerpt of an interview the New York Times Magazine conducted with Ronald P. Reagan.
An excerpt:
Q: “How did your mother feel about being ushered to her seat by President Bush?”
RR: “Well, he did a better job than Dick Cheney did when he came to the rotunda. [...]

My unacknowledged (by both they and I) boycott of The Nation and its website has had few ill effects. Except, that is, it has limited my exposure to their only useful writer, David Corn.
No more. In effort at promoting his new book, Mr. Corn has established himself an independent website and blog at Bushlies.com. Moreover, [...]

This news is old but new to me. Sony has bought the rights to a Moneyball movie.
Michael Lewis’ book began as a non-fiction investigation into the intersection between Reason and baseball. Finding this combination lacking elsewhere, Mr. Lewis focuses on the recent success of the heroic Oakland Athletics and their intrepid General Manager Billy Beane.
Given [...]

From Slate’s juicy bits selection of excerpts from Clinton’s memoir comes this tidbit:
Page 914: In the middle of tense Middle East peace negotiations, Ehud Barak nearly dies after choking on a peanut.
Is any world leader safe from the scourge of snackfoods beginning with the letter ‘P’?
Pretzels and peanuts, the salty (almost) killers.

Matthew Mullenweg, the designer of the software I use on this site describes is visiting San Francisco.
He describes some of his first impressions:
The Muni was about the same as any other subway/train thing I’ve been on, except every third person had white iPod earphones on and a Powerbook in their lap.
I guess all Muni [...]

Law and political science professor Cass Sunstein begins guest blogging at The Volokh Conspiracy with the best post I’ve yet read on that site.
Dr. Sunstein’s forthcoming book, The Second Bill of Rights seeks to burn away the fog of reverie and politics that has encloaked Franklin Roosevelt’s legacy. We celebrate victory in WWII, the end [...]