Lurita Doan tries to lecture Henry Louis Gates, Jr. But she sounds just as stupid as she has always sounded.

Ian Shapria rightly complains that Gawker appropriated huge chunks of his work without practicing good linking etiquette. But he ironically links to Slate doing precisely what she complains Gawker is doing.

The Army says it’s going to respond to the infiltration of peace groups by several of its employees–by investigating just one fo them.

Remember when the Obama Administration appealed to a “fundamental compact” between Congress and the Executive Branch when arguing the intelligence community didn’t need more oversight? (“Fundamental compact, my ass,” I thought was the best response.) Well, Leon Panetta’s out with a similar appeal to inflated, but bogus, language in an attempt to avoid increased Congressional oversight.