THE FORCES OF DIVISION are raising their ugly heads again.

WHY AREN’T THE VIETNAMESE more grateful to Tom Hayden?

MEGAN MCARDLE IS overcome by lust.

AN ARMY OF SPITZERS?

A LOSS TO POLITICAL COVERAGE, in Tennessee and elsewhere. A.C. Kleinheider is let go from WKRN. Here’s a roundup of reactions from Katie Granju. I think it sucks.

JUDGMENT: Obama: I Trusted Rezko.

SAMIZDATA: How would free individuals handle climate change?

A WRITERS’ STRIKE AT DAILYKOS: No, they’re not demanding money. Just respect for Hillary supporters from the Obama crowd. “Would Obama encourage that sort of anger, bullying, intimidation and hate from his followers toward another Democrat and her supporters? Do those followers of his help his cause at the end of the day?” (Via Joe Gandelman, who observes: “This might seem to be a provincial conflict, but it is highly significant. In political terms, it underscores the raw, angry and bitter rivalry between supporters of Obama and Clinton.”)

HILLARY LEADS ST. PATRICK’S PARADE in Pittsburgh, with a big crowd. You’d think they’d be supporting O’bama!

ROGER SIMON: With Obama Wounded and Hillary Unappealing, Will Gore Finally Surface?

ED MORRISSEY: “The reaction of Obama supporters to Jeremiah Wright has certainly been instructive, especially those who had plenty to say about Mitt Romney and Mormonism last year.”

UPDATE: I don’t recall Mitt Romney nodding in agreement with racist or anti-American statements.

ANOTHER UPDATE: Contrast.

MORE: An Obama defense from Cass Sunstein. “This is the Barack Obama I have known for nearly 15 years — a careful and evenhanded analyst of law and policy, unusually attentive to multiple points of view. . . . Obama has a genuinely independent mind, he’s a terrific listener and he goes wherever reason takes him. . . . In recent weeks, his speaking talents, and the cultlike atmosphere that occasionally surrounds him, have led people to wonder whether there is substance behind the plea for ‘change’ — whether the soaring phrases might disguise emptiness and vagueness. But nothing could be further from the truth. He is most comfortable in the domain of policy and detail.”

EARMARKS AS USUAL: “For Congressional Appropriators, Thursday night’s vote cashiering the earmark moratorium was an embarrassment of riches, with some 71 Senators endorsing Capitol Hill’s spending culture. For everyone else, it was merely embarrassing.”

THE SHADOW OF SPITZERISM: Prosecutorial misconduct in the Enron case? “‘The brief reveals suppression of exculpatory evidence by the Enron Task Force of a massive scale. The entire brief is devastating to the Task Force’s prosecution of Skilling and the late Enron chairman, Ken Lay.’ . . . I’m still waiting for this to capture the attention of the press, which had been so rivited on Fastow’s testimony at the trial.”

HOW TO BUY A PERSONAL WATERCRAFT — plus video of sawing one in half.

A LOOK AT VOLVO’S PLUG-IN HYBRID.

ICEBERGS in Lake Michigan?

AN OPEN LETTER to white people.

STORMS IN ATLANTA: Reader Curt Matern emails: “I live about ten blocks away from the Georgia Dome. I’ve got to tell you, that was one scary damned storm. My car was really whacked by concrete, which is fixable. However, I thought the building would come down around me. I have lived in Atlanta since ’73. Un-freaking-believable! And here comes another one.” Hunker down.

THRILLING MEMORIES OF the Subaru XT.

YOUR MONEY BACK, if not satisfied.

A LEPRECHAUN in the White House?

WHEN A MEDIA ORGANIZATION DOES IT TO AN INDIVIDUAL, IT’S NOT COPYRIGHT INFRINGEMENT: At least, that seems to be the Associated Press’s position.

Jules Crittenden comments:

Of course the key words re the AP are not “news value” or “public needed to see,” but “legal department.” When you’re a multi-million-$$$ corporation and you have one of those, then you get to decide what the public needs to see and where they get to see it.

That may turn out not to be the case . . . .

And some worm-turns thoughts over at the AP-silenced Snapped Shots, which has a much better claim of “fair use” than the AP did.

ANOTHER UPDATE: HEH:

In disputes of this kind, one would normally bet on the multinational megacorp with the big legal department. But it’s pretty clear from her general philosophy that “Kristen” doesn’t give away much for free, and certainly not “exotic photographs”. And, given what one of my readers calls her “fully-funded mandate” from the Governor of New York, she presumably has the pockets to take AP to court. You go, girl! It’s not often you get a case where there’s someone in the room with a higher hourly rate than the lawyers.

She may find lawyers willing to represent her on quite favorable terms.

MICKEY KAUS ON OBAMA: “If it offends you, I condemn it!”

UPDATE: Related thoughts here.

GEE, D’YA THINK? Maybe China shouldn’t be hosting the Olympics.

INSTAPUNK ON OBAMA: Including that often-sound phrase, “Glenn Reynolds is wrong.”