The Conservatives Return Fire

America's conservatives lost their balance only briefly in their ongoing bout with liberals over presidential adviser Karl Rove -- while yesterday bloggers mostly were linking to Scott McClellan's humiliating press conference, today they're pointing out things like this column in the Wall Street Journal, and others, that rebut Democrats' accusations. RightPundit asks, apropos the Rove question, "Is the governmental employee who released the information evil or a hero? Answer: It depends. If employee’s name is W. Mark Felt, apparently the employee is a hero. If the employee’s name is Karl Rove, apparently the employee is evil." But David Galbraith calls the WSJ column "a particularly side-splitting classic of obsequious, foppish garbage, worthy of the court of Louis XVI." And the battle rages on...

The Deadly Mission of the Lads From Leeds
Chilling developments today from England, where investigators now say the attacks on the London bus and subways were the work of suicide bombers, believed to be the first such strikes by terrorists in a Western country. The BBC story is BlogPulse's no. 32 link. And the bombers all seem to have been British citizens. This British blogger is simply dismayed at the revelations -- "This is EXTREMELY bad news.. how bad doesn't bear thinking about," he writes -- while this one resents the political hay already being made from the bombings: "It’s sad how quick the right is to distort another country’s tragedy -- the tragedy of an ally in the war on terror -- into political gain in an unrelated issue. "

Heavy. But There's Levity Elsewhere On The Web
Fortunately the blogosphere is too big to comprise only partisan acrimony and bad news. Hockey could be back, for example. Check out the ad for Apple's newest music player (let the SUV ad pass and wait for the iPod video) -- "more great iPod fun," writes Trend Junkie (but don't look for it in stores) -- or this comic (link no. 21), which we predict will terminate your boredom with extreme prejudice. "Well worth your time," writes gabbahead. And finally, there's this little beauty, today's no. 6 link, which seems to have been designed so that no computer user who finds it will get any work done thereafter.