ONE YEAR AFTER THE LONDON BOMBINGS: A roundup at Pajamas Media.

TO THE STARS: A new foundation aimed at promoting faster-than-light travel. Give generously, especially if you’re really rich.

JEEZ: “Hamsher replied to Althouse’s post about civility in public discourse by calling her an idiot and portraying her as a baboon.”

It’s like seventh grade, in some parts of the blogosphere. Related item here.

UPDATE: The BullMoose observes: “Over and over again, the lefty bloggers contend that their major objective is not an ideological one but rather a partisan one. They claim that they want to win. Badly. The Moose begs to differ. It is not the goal of the left to prevail, but rather to purify.”

Indeed. Otherwise they’d be more concerned with making friends than with, er, influencing people. And this is certainly true: “All of this is grand news for the Republicans. One would think that the big political story would be the GOP holding onto power for dear life. Instead, the new narrative that is emerging is about the national Deaniac left telling Democratic hawks to beat it. The lefties’ goal is a McGovernite party without the Scoop wing.”

That’ll work.

MORE: Roger Simon writes:

What interests me most in this is not so much the issue as the intensity of the rage directed at Lieberman. . . . Firedoglake has a right to feel frustrated. But if she wants to win, she should wise up.

Indeed.

HE WAS PAID BY IT before he was against it.

MORE ON GAY MARRIAGE — and marriage generally — over at GlennReynolds.com. There’s more at GayPatriot.

I’M CONFUSED: “Democratic National Committee Chairman Howard Dean called the rationale used in a decision by the New York appeals court reaffirming a ban on gay marriage ‘bigoted and outdated.'”

How do we square that with this? “Democratic Party Chair Howard Dean has contradicted his party’s platform and infuriated gay rights advocates by saying the party’s platform states ‘marriage is between a man and a woman.'”

Am I missing something? I realize, of course, that a “bigoted” rationale could conceivably produce an un-bigoted result — marriage only between a man and a woman, which Dean apparently favors — but that’s more nuance than I usually expect from Dean. Something like that certainly calls for more explanation.

UPDATE: Hmm. Kerry’s sounding “anti-gay,” too. . . .

MORE: And now, charges of racist remarks from Joe Biden.

And “rape gurney Joe” is carrying the anti-Lieberman sentiment just a bit far, isn’t it?

It’s a Kerfuffle-a-thon, and Taranto’s on vacation!

MORE STILL: No, I don’t really think that Biden’s racist. It’s just his usual talk-without-engaging-brain problem. But it’s more evidence that “The only thing standing between Joe Biden and the presidency is his mouth.”

Here, meanwhile, is Dean’s full statement, which doesn’t seem that enlightening. And Eugene Volokh has thoughts on Dean’s statement here and here.

A POLL ON PORK, done with the Sunlight Foundation:

I SEEM TO REMEMBER a lot of people downplaying any Al Qaeda connection to the London bombings last summer. But this new video would seem to make the case for such a connection pretty strong:

Pakistani government sources tell ABC News two key operatives in last year’s London bombings, Shehzad Tanweer and Mohammad Saddique Khan, personally met with Ayman al-Zawahiri in the tribal areas sometime in January 2005.

Both appeared in the same video with Ayman al-Zawahiri, which was broadcast in two parts: the first part featuring Khan, posted in the Internet on Sept. 1, 2005, the second part with Tanweer, posted today.

The same sources say that both Khan and Tanweer were led to South Waziristan via Quetta several weeks after their arrival in Karachi in November 2004 and spent at least three full days with Zawahiri in the tribal areas.

Sounds like a connection to me.

FORMER INSTAPUNDIT AFGHANISTAN PHOTO CORRESPONDENT MAJOR JOHN TAMMES, recommends the excellent photoblogging from Afghanistan at this site. In particular, check out this post and this one. Tammes writes: “They make almost everything I sent you pale in comparison.”

He’s being too modest, but the site is excellent.

JOHN KERRY CHARGED WITH SEX DISCRIMINATION:

Much as I respect military service, I think status as a veteran is a ridiculous single issue basis for deciding between candidates. Among other things, it has a discriminatory impact on women. And what about individuals who oppose the war, like Kerry himself? Presumably, they wouldn’t enlist. Presumably, he wouldn’t enlist. What is this posturing about?

He just wants to remind people that he’s a veteran himself, because, you know, he made the mistake of not making it a theme of his campaign . . . .

IN THE MAIL: Mark Herrmann’s The Curmudgeon’s Guide to Practicing Law, which may be particularly useful for recent law school graduates.

IF YOU CAN’T MAKE IT THERE, CAN YOU MAKE IT ANYWHERE? Er, besides Massachussetts, maybe. The New York Court of Appeals, New York’s highest court, has declined to find a right to gay marriage. The opinion is here.

Anklebiting Pundits has a roundup. The Georgia Supreme Court (which, it should be noted, overturned Georgia’s sodomy law on state constitutional grounds before Lawrence v. Texas was decided) has also issued a similar ruling today according to Howard Bashman.

As I’ve said before, gay marriage is more likely to come about through the action of time and politics than through judicial end-runs. As with Bowers v. Hardwick — and for that matter, Kelo — this should be a spur to political action. I hope that New York, and other states, will recognize gay marriage legislatively.

UPDATE: Here’s more on the Georgia opinion.

AUSTIN BAY has much more on North Korea.

“SHE WAS WORKING, I thought I was on a date:” A Slashdot journalist fact-checks a story from The New Republic on conservative dating sites — as he says he was one of those who was, um, dated.

UPDATE: Ack, bad link before. Fixed now. Sorry!

HATING Lee Greenwood.

MEXICAN ELECTION UPDATE: Calderon has pulled back into the lead. Here’s a roundup of coverage.

THE SILVER-BULLET FALLACY: My TCS Daily column is up.

THIS SHOULD BE INTERESTING: “President Bush gave strong backing Wednesday to ex-Soviet state Georgia’s desire to join NATO in a comment that may annoy Moscow ahead of next week’s Group of Eight summit.”

FEELING GOOD ABOUT YOURSELF, with someone else’s money. Wow, what a deal!

JORDAN VS. the Muslim Brotherhood.

CHANNELING THE FRAMERS: The Justice Stevens Way.

DANIEL DREZNER: Should you panic over North Korea, or not?

Given the “catastrophic failure” of this week’s launches, maybe the answer is no, at least for now.

AMANDA SCHAFFER writes that social conservatives are losing the condom wars.

GRANDPA TUMBLEBUG and the EPA.

MONEY WELL SPENT: “The Blogometer can’t remember the last time we read anything positive about Sen. Hillary Clinton (D-NY) on DailyKos but barely two weeks into blog outreach director Peter Daou’s tenure and already HRC is being praised as a model Dem.”