I’VE NEVER CARED MUCH ABOUT THE CONDIT-LEVY THING. In fact, back before 9/11 this site bore the slogan “100% C*ndit Free!” (Without the asterisk, you see, the slogan would have been self-falsifying).

But although Best of the Web and Andrew Sullivan are already declaring Condit vindicated, it seems a bit soon to me to declare the case solved and pin the murder on a “drifter” (isn’t that who they always try to pin it on in those murder mysteries where a Congressman or a Governor or a Cabinet official or somebody is the real killer?) More importantly, it seems a bit too soon to Mickey Kaus, who unlike me has actually thought about the issue, consulted maps, and so on.