RICH GALEN: Someone HAS to be the grownup. I dunno, it’s looking to me like clowns all the way down.

MY ADVICE TO THE MORTGAGE FOLKS: If you attend this meeting, wear a wire. So that any inappropriate threats can be recorded.

NEW DICK CHENEY REPORTS produce new interest in my work on consitutional limits to the Vice Presidency. At least with Joe Biden as veep, we don’t have to worry that he’ll be a recipient of excessive delegations of presidential power . . . . .

EVERYTHING SEEMINGLY IS SPINNING OUT OF CONTROL: Rain and cool weather wash away millions of tourism dollars in Northeast. “Relentless rain and cool weather since early June have sent visitors scrambling home and washed away millions of tourism dollars across the Northeast. But the first 80-degree readings this month gave a glimmer of hope Friday that summer can be salvaged.” I blame Global Warming1 Er, I mean, Climate Change!