The Saturday Swipe

Funny, back in the old days when we planned soccer tournaments, we calculated the distance by miles and availability of restaurants that could handle a team of boisterous boys and exhausted parents. Now we calculate them by the amount of gas burned. With that in mind…

Spending the hottest part of the day at the soccer field half-a-tank-of-gas away bakes your brain along with your skin. So with the gray matter about the consistency of a Baked Alaska, all I can manage is a quick round-up before off to bed – have to burn another half-a-tank-of-gas to make tomorrow’s 9am game.

LawHawk is as suspicious as I am about the TIMING of the Russian attack on Georgia. And notes the NYT’s slant that the Russians are being helpful. Hmmm… That’s not an adjective normally associated with Russia. And given the state of the Russian military behemoth, this is not an overnight operation. They have obviously been planning for months (even years) to provoke the Georgians. What better time than when the world turns to China for the Olympics?

Both Fausta and The Anchoress have good posts up about the John Edwards “affair.” The scrutiny of public life is a double-edged sword and this whole sordid mess is a fine example of that.

Andrew Breitbart writes in the Washington Times about Jon Voight’s lone conservative voice in Hollywood. Realizing Hollywood’s manipulation by Marxism,

In his newfound voice, Mr. Voight also boldly warns of the consequences of electing the current antiwar candidate: “If, God forbid, we live to see [Barack] Obama president, we will live through a socialist era that America has not seen before, and our country will be weakened in every way.”

Jon Voight may have made a few new friends.

A funny thing happened on the way to the forming of a media consensus. The new media – quick to spot a partisan-based old media railroading – struck back and defended Mr. Voight.

Dominant center-right blogs like Instapundit, Slate’s Kaus Files (fine, Mickey, “neo-liberal”) and Powerline, removed from the corrupting junkets, premieres and swag-heavy lifestyle of Hollywood journalists, pointed to Mr. Wells and Mr. Bart’s “Deliverance”-inspired journalistic behavior.

In the same vein, Gateway Pundit has a copy of the letter libtard thugs are sending out to potential GOP donors, implying that the IRS will turn Their Eye your way if you give money for Republican fund-raising.

Don Surber’s Quote of the Day. McCain just gets better, while Obama continues to orbit his ego. Freud would have loved this.