EVERYBODY WANTS TO RULE THE WORLD: “Video Shows bin Laden Watching Himself on TV.”

WOLFOWITZ: “Should We Hit Gaddafi Next?”

Given the source, I wonder what sort of cognitive dissonance such a question is causing at the Daily Beast?

‘I BID YOU FAREWELL WITH A HEAVY HEART/Never from my mind will your memories thwart.” Written about Abbottabad by Major James Abbott — the Abbott in Abbottabad — and considered by some to be the worst poem ever written.

ADDED: Come over to my home blog, Althouse, where we have comments, if you’re inclined — as I am — to write a parody of the poem.

DID ZAWAHIRI BETRAY BIN LADEN?

HMMMM: “Opinion: Bin Laden compound is ordinary by Pakistan standards.”

CATCH-44: President Obama, the I, I, I, me, me, me “First-Person President” as dubbed by Victor Davis Hanson, “takes credit for operations that would have been impossible had Senator Obama’s views prevailed.”

RELATED: “Why not release the order directing action against bin Laden?”

FLASHBACK: For comparison’s sake, President Bush’s speech upon the capture of Saddam Hussein.

IS FACEBOOK an appalling spy machine?

JUST ONCE I’d like to read an article by Noam Chomsky that isn’t faux brilliant in its moral and political idiocy, one that suggests he does, in fact, live in the same world as the rest of us, but he can’t even manage it after Osama bin Laden is killed.

“KLOPPENBURG LAYING FOUNDATION to delegitimize inevitable Prosser win.”

GIVING MICHAEL MOORE CREDIT “for being consistent and non-partisan.“

IN THE MAIL: From Sharon Lee & Steve Miller, Longeye.

IT’S NOT EASY ESTIMATING THE HEIGHT OF A MAN USING SATELLITE IMAGERY. The “Pacer” — who turned out to be the 6’4″ Osama bin Laden — was estimated to be somewhere between 5’8″ and 6’8″.

A TRUCE ON MORAL ISSUES? I see a distinction between abortion and homosexuality… in the mind of Santorum.

UH OH: Multi-platform Java Botnet Spotted In The Wild.

WHAT IF YOU HAD A SLUTWALKING PROTEST and nobody dressed like a slut?

MOTHER’S DAY: It’s not too late to send an Amazon gift card!

CHANGE: Britain rejects the Left’s bid for permanent power.

SYMPATHY FOR THE DEVIL: “How did ‘I hate bin Laden and I’m glad he’s dead’ become the most shocking thing one can say in polite society?”

And on the flip-side, “In Celebrating OBL’s Demise, the Kids Are All Right.”

CUTTING EDGE TECHNOLOGY: Then: Faxes from the beach! Now: Paper-thin computer could shake up tech world.

LET’S HOPE SO: Michael Walsh: Bin Laden’s death could start the terror war’s end.

AT AMAZON, a one day sale only on Cuisinart coffee makers.

STRANGERS ON A TRAIN: On the west coast, CBS’s San Francisco affiliate reports, “Unruly Passenger ‘WMD’ Talk Causes BART Delays.”

Back east, from Philadelphia’s CBS affiliate, Police: IED Found Near Chester, Pennsylvania Train Tracks.

And if authorities seem jittery now, that might increase in coming months: “Al Qaeda Planned to Attack U.S. Trains on 9/11 Anniversary, Bin Laden Material Shows.”

AT LEAST THEY ACKNOWLEDGE HE’S DEAD. Here is a photo gallery showing thousands of reactionary Islamists taking to the streets in Egypt and Pakistan to protest the death of Osama bin Laden.

CHANGE: “The good news is that the economy added about 268,000 new jobs. The bad news is that 25 percent (62,000) were from McDonald’s. Were Obamacare Waivers Responsible for 25 percent of Private Sector Job Growth?”

WAR DOGS:  Don’t Bring a Cat to Kill a Terrorist.