Sometimes, Politicians Should Just Say, "No Comment" And Let It Go At That

Why is a Republican Colorado congressman so prominent in today's BlogPulse results? Because Rep. Tom Tancredo (Nos. 3 and 4 on the bursty people list) "hypothetically" opened his mouth on Pat Campbell's radio talk show in Orlando when maybe he should have let the tactful part of his brain take over instead.

Asked how the U.S. should respond to hypothetical nuclear attacks on U.S. cities by terrorists, he suggested bombing Islamic holy sites (meaning Mecca) as an alternative. Patridiot Watch blog offers a particularly descriptive noun to characterize the honorable legislator, File it Under suggests offering jobs to the Middle East instead of bombs, while even "shock and awe" bloggers like Captain's Quarter and Hugh Hewitt are calling for Richard Durbin-like apologies.

The latest campus craze: Open-Source Beer
Oh, sure, there's still plenty of chatter about the Karl Rove-Valerie Plame leak from the right and the left and the media, but let's talk about what's really important: open-source beer (No. 26 link). Students in Denmark have come up with the idea of a free beer recipe; anyone using it to make money must give them credit and publish a new license. Even beer-loving German bloggers have taken note.

Is Darwin whispering "Told You So!"?
Just a hunch, but the emergence of tuskless elephants in China probably is NOT a result of "intellgent design" theory. Still, one Live Journal evolutionist wishes science reporting would be more, well, scientific.

He's back
New Yorker writer and investigative journalist Seymour Hersh has another piece (No. 20 link) about the Bush Administration's strategies for influencing election results. In Iraq, that is.