Saturday open thread *UPDATED*

I must have been tired, since I slept for almost 11 hours.  Not surprising, I guess, considering the chronic insomnia that plagues me and the usual 5-6 hour nights.  I’m feeling quite good right now, although I have a little bit of a sleep hangover.  It would be a great day for blogging, but for one thing:  two legal projects, one of which needs to be completed today, and other tomorrow.

So, while I’m slogging through really boring stuff, have some fun here or, even better, have some other kind of fun entirely!

UPDATE:  Couldn’t resist passing on a few interesting reads:

A schism on the Left, an article that explains Obama’s unwillingness to show his face on the streets of San Francisco.

Mark  Steyn lends his usual charm to the stale story of media duplicity and double standards.

James Taranto on the real genius that Andrew Breitbart brings to his attack on the intellectual corruption that characterizes today’s media.

Rush Limbaugh on the real racists in the room.  (And Sharpton threatens to sue, saying that he wasn’t at either of the riots Rush links to Sharpton in the article.  I guess incitement before the fact — which is what I recall from the historical record — doesn’t count.)

The dangerous Joe Biden (an article that’s also interesting because, in the middle, it highlights once again that Obama is a nasty man who publicly insulted his own VP).

Ayaan Hirsi Ali:  “To be a community of free people, you have to defend that freedom tooth and nail, and for this country to remain vital, you have to understand that freedom is a very, very vulnerable institution. It’s something you have to keep defending, and the only way to achieve that is intolerance of intolerance.”

Jennifer Rubin on Obama’s “Not Bush” foreign policy, and how it highlights just what a good job Bush actually did.  Bush, of course, was more interested in doing the right thing than in dong the popular thing.  Obama wants to be popular.  Given that attitude, one gets a glimpse into what fearsome teenagers his two cute little girls have the opportunity to become if they follow Dad’s mantra and always place popular over right or good.