You are evil, evil little burgers.

Hammering and drilling is a nice thing to have early in the morning on weekends.

Ross Douthat and Matthew Yglesias have new blogs at The Atlantic. Good.

David Weigel surveys Sam Brownback’s changing positions on immigration and the surge, asking: “Is there really no room in the GOP primary for a candidate who holds the majority viewpoints on immigration and the war?”

As it happens, yes: Ron Paul. (I happen to think that once you get into specifics the majority position on immigration is actually a bit more restrictive than Dave does, which probably accounts for our coming up with different answers to this question.) Now if only we could get the majority to come around to Paul’s positions on the income tax and the Federal Reserve.

One should always hold loud telephone conversations somewhere other than church.

Public transportation should never smell like a public restroom.

Don’t walk home in the middle of a manhunt.

My recent cover story on foreign policy trumping the conservative domestic agenda is now online.

Customer service is like a bath — you’ve got to keep doing it.

Once more into the breach on this whole Washington Monthly/American Conservative kerfuffle. Over at 4Pundits, I respond to a liberal blog’s effort to use the episode to psychoanalyze the conservative movement.