Events

...even if she doesn't need men. In her column today (sub.req.) she pulls no punches with two men no one needs: As the story of the weekend's bizarre hunting accident is wrenched out of the White House, the picture isn't pretty: With American soldiers dying in Iraq, Five-Deferment Dick "I Had Other Priorities in the 60's Than Military Service" Cheney gets his macho kicks gunning down little birds and the occasional old man while W. rides his bike, blissfully oblivious to any collateral damage. Shouldn't...

Anne made me watch the Westminster Kennel Club Show yesterday and Monday. OK, she was right. I found myself rooting for Shaka the Rottweiler, but Rufus the Bull Terrier won instead. Photo: AP

The Ohio Democratic Party has honked off Paul Hackett, because they believe another Ohio representative has a better chance of getting elected to the Senate this fall: "It boils down to who we think can pull the most votes in November against [incumbent GOP Senator Mike] DeWine," said Chris Redfern, chairman of the Ohio Democratic Party. "And in Ohio, Brown's name is golden. It's just that simple." They're nuts. And now we've lost exactly the kind of person we need in the party. And we look like idiots....

Vice President Cheney has been cited for not having a hunting stamp required for non-residents to shoot birds in Texas. One assumes he didn't have the proper license to shoot people, either, but that bit is still under investigation. Also of interest: The Cheney supporter and fund-raiser who owned the property he was hunting on, Karen Armstrong, got a call from Karl Rove less than two hours after the accident: "Chief of Staff Andy Card called the president around 7:30 p.m. to inform him that there was a...

Josh Marshall wonders about Dick Cheney's hunting accident Saturday: At a minimum it seems a tad ungentlemanly to put out word through your media operation that the guy you just shot was at fault for getting shot. But I don't know. Tom Lehrer wrote a song about it many years ago: I always will remember,'Twas a year ago November,I went out to hunt some deerOn a mornin' bright and clear.I went and shot the maximum the game laws would allow,Two game wardens, seven hunters, and a cow. Anyway, this flap...

Washington today is getting its biggest snowstorm in three years: A major snow storm pounded the Washington region overnight and this morning, dumping 20 inches of heavy wet snow in some locations and 8 or 9 inches elsewhere, causing power outages for nearly 200,000 consumers and disrupting travel by road, air and Metrorail. And in a later story: The snow swept in lazily yesterday afternoon and was expected to depart by midday today, giving residents ample time to dig out before the start of the...

From the Michigan Avenue Bridge.

Chicago Tribune columnist Eric Zorn makes some good points about the Jyllands-Posten cartoons in his blog today: [S]ome of the drawings make a point in exactly the same way that any good editorial cartoon makes a point, and they have a grown-up, even sophisticated purpose: To challenge those who use intimidation to block free expression and those who find in their religious texts justification for mass murder. Specifically, Jyllands-Posten commissioned the cartoons to make a defiant statement after...

Charles Darwin was born 197 years ago this Sunday. In his honor, I proudly link to Garry Trudeau getting it just right.

First, House Majority Leader John Boehner is renting an apartment from a D.C. lobbyist: Rep. John A. Boehner (R-Ohio), who was elected House majority leader last week, is renting his Capitol Hill apartment from a veteran lobbyist whose clients have direct stakes in legislation Boehner has co-written and that he has overseen as chairman of the Education and the Workforce Committee. The relationship between Boehner, John D. Milne and Milne's wife, Debra R. Anderson, underscores how intertwined senior...