Great riff on the pardon take-back

Phil Nugent of No More Mister Nice Blog takes Bush's pardon bumble and weaves it into a compelling analysis of the Bush presidency in this beautifully written post.

Good use of Christmas day free time

Once the presents are opened and everyone else is playing with new toys or snoozing, do you savor the free time of Christmas afternoon? I've found a fun way to use it: voting on Andrew Sullivan's awards for the year. It's time consuming, with all the clicking back and forth to read one awful quote after another, but genuinely good for a laugh, and a last chance to vote in 2008.
check it out.

Then on December 31, TalkingPointsMemo will annouce this years winners in several categories of venality, dishonesty, and general bad behavior in the Golden Duke Awards (named, of course, for Duke Cunningham). Highly recommended (see at www.talkingpointsmemo.com).