Please note: harder language than Crab Media's average in this post. Please be advised if such language is offensive to your sensibilities.

In the recent Feller decision, the Supreme Court struck down a fairly long-standing gun ban in the District of Columbia, holding that the 2nd Amendment in the Bill of Rights of the U.S. Constitution protects an individual right to keep and bear arms of a sort in general common use.

http://www.bradblog.com/?p=6081

I love Republicans. Really. They are perfect in their awfulness so reliably often.

Obama is not going to decapitate McCain. This video will decapitate him.

I have held off blogging on substance for a while. So much of my life seems claimed and counter-claimed by opposing forces looking to jam my time, steal it, scrape it, BS me out of an hour here and a half hour there for no good reason. I remain impatient that my apartment cannot easily accommodate my alternative lifestyle, to wit: present Daddy two days a week, quasi-half-assed bachelor nobody for the other twelve. But at least I am keeping it clean, orderly and safe for the little fellows.

Over at responsivedocuments.com, I have an excerpt of a Daily Record article on a privilege waiver by inadvertent or negligent document privilege review policies in a federal case in Baltimore. In short, sloppy rules and procedures for preventing an inadvertent release of privileged documents resulted in both the release of such documents and a ruling that the release effected a waiver of privilege, notwithstanding an attempt to allow a "clawback" of privileged material.

If anybody suggests that you should have a "Happy Memorial Day," ask him or her what's so happy about dead U.S. soldiers. If a southerner wishes it to you, tell him or her that you do not find the historical reality of Confederate unlawful combatants shooting U.S. soldiers in the face and killing them "happy." Then ask him or her what should happen to people who kill U.S. soldiers. My answer: they should not get parks, highways, schools, colleges, etc., named in their honor, unless we are ready to make way for "Tariq Aziz Boulevard" in Cleveland and "Mullah Muhammed Omar Junior High" in Biloxi.

Charleston (WV) Gazette, May 19, 2008:

Sen. Robert C. Byrd, D-W.Va., endorsed Barack Obama for president shortly after noon today, focusing on his hope to end the Iraq War.

"As people all across this great nation know, I have been one of the most outspoken opponents of the Bush administration's misguided war in Iraq and its saber rattling around the globe," Byrd said.

He said he had "no intention of involving myself in the Democratic campaign for President in the midst of West Virginia's primary election. But the stakes this November could not be higher."

Byrd praised both Obama and Hillary Clinton, saying their "integrity, honor, love for this country and strong belief in our Constitution I deeply respect...

The "More Like This" tag above applies to the Maryland Conservatarian who has administered a well-timed, well-aimed scolding to those who, with lameness overflowing, have challenged the natural-born citizenship of Senator John McCain, who was born in the Canal Zone in a military hospital back when the Canal Zone was unambiguously U.S. territory.

On hearing from Media Matters that Arianna Huffington would be at Politics and Prose talking about her new book "Right is Wrong," I decided to make the trek to Chevy Chase.

Unfortunately, the northbound L series of buses up Connecticut Avenue from Van Ness Metro to Chevy Chase Circle were shockingly absent, gone, not there, failed to post, whatever. The buses run for that stretch about 7 times an hour in late rush hour, but I (and 15 other angry passengers) waited at Van Ness close to half an hour. Arianna was scheduled to start her talk at 7 PM, which is when I punch out. I was just hoping to hear the last 20-25 minutes or so. Of course, when the bus finally did arrive, it brought me to Connecticut and Nebraska just in time for me to hear, in her lovely, unmistakable Greek accent, "Thank you all for coming." Out marched the hordes of applauding liberals both old and ancient, nearly mowing me down. On my child-support oriented budget, there would be no chance I would buy this book new in hardcover, so I did not bother to stand in line. Instead, I caught one picture of the lovely author from in between several liberal hordelings, and rushed out the door just in time to catch a timely arriving M4 bus quickly crosstown a few blocks to Tenleytown, to check out computer printers and storage doodads.

Zuzu, recently of Feministe and now of Kindly Póg Mo Thóin (Gaelic for "Kiss My A**"), claims that Senator Barack Obama is a politician, and cites evidence to prove her thesis. The "you" of "Obama's just not that into you" is, more or less, the more enthusiastic sector of the liberal blogosphere, particularly at Daily Kos, where Hillary Clinton can barely find a public supporter at this point.

40 years today, a white Southern political terrorist shot and killed Martin Luther King, Jr. in Memphis. The night before the day before he was killed, he predicted in perhaps his second most famous speech that he might be assassinated.

I can just see this dangerous militant selling bean pies for Louis Farrakhan at the corner of Wabash and Northern Parkway in Baltimore.

Speak it, Josh:

Ferraro is a "media assassin" who took the wrong caliber bullets to the "hit." She needs to call Bill Donohue at the Catholic League, have him teach a tutorial on Media Assassin 101. But in a way, she has reminded ethnically identified "white" Democratic voters in Pennsylvania to show up like they did in neighboring Ohio and vote down the big. bad, unfair Negro. Hillary should ship a bottle case of gin to the good servant done well.

Minister and controversial supporter of Senator John McCain's presidential campaign, John Hagee: "The Catholic Church is the Great Whore... [of Babylon, from the Christian Apocalypse.]"

Next Frame: Disgraced NY Governor Eliot Spitzer, wheeling in a Brinks Armored Car of cash with hand signal lights like on the airport tarmac, "As if you'd know from great whores. At this price, they'd better be great." It is alleged that the services of one of the ALLEGED prostitution agencies implicated in ALLEGED connection to Governor Spitzer cost up to $4,500 an session, that's four thou five hunnert.

Better be a great whore. Eliot would be right to be pissed off if they tried to pass a "budget" $2,800 whore. maybe some toothless, high-mileage leatherbeaten retread from Beirut, off on him at that price.