Friday Follies: K of C Sunday Scramble, Mukasey

Important things first: Terry Butcher is setting up a K of C Scramble for Sunday morning at nine. All are welcome; just bring your loose change and some kind of golf game. I expect he would appreciate some kind of notice that you intend to play. Drop in at the K of C or call here.

And tomorrow's scramble starts at 10 am.

That takes care of the important stuff.

-I see that Mukasey has already been confirmed after a day, actually 4 hours, of 'impassioned floor debate' in the Senate. From Glenn Greenewald via dKos:

[The most amazing quote was from chief Mukasey supporter Chuck Schumer, who, before voting for him, said that Mukasey is "wrong on torture -- dead wrong." Marvel at that phrase: "wrong on torture." Six years ago, there wasn't even any such thing as being "wrong on torture," because "torture" wasn't something we debated. It would have been incoherent to have heard: "Well, he's dead wrong on torture, but . . . "

Now, "torture" is not only something we openly debate, but it's something we do. And the fact that someone is on the wrong side of the "torture debate" doesn't prevent them from becoming the Attorney General of the United States. It's just one issue, like any other issue -- the capital gains tax, employer mandates for health care, the water bill -- and just because someone is "dead wrong" on one little issue (torture) hardly disqualifies them from High Beltway Office.]

Jeesh... The depths that we have arrived at her in the land of the free...