Sorry, a punchline too obvious to ignore.

BOSTON - Syndicated columnist and former “Crossfire” host Robert Novak has been diagnosed with a brain tumor and is suspending his journalistic work.

Novak issued a statement Monday saying the tumor was found Sunday after he had been rushed to Boston’s Brigham and Women’s Hospital from Cape Cod, where he was visiting his daughter.

The Chicago Sun-Times columnist says he is suspending his journalistic work for an indefinite, “but God willing, not too lengthy period.” His statement did not say if the tumor was malignant.

I’m not burning with sympathy for Mr. Novak, but I wouldn’t wish this on anyone, so I’ll forego the schadenfreude. I had a friend who died from a brain tumor, and he did a lot of real crazy shit for several years before he was diagnosed. Who knows?

Hat-wearing, pants-wetting Trainwreck Media Mogul Roger El, never one to shy away from offering truly stupid opinions:

Meanwhile, Barack Obama seems to adopting a foreign policy best described as “McCain lite.”

You mean like saying his opponent’s long-announced 16 month timetable for withdrawing from Iraq sounds like “a pretty good timetable.” That is, before denying saying the word “timetable” at all, and then admitting he said it but explaining he meant something entirely different than the way it sounded. . .

Is he senile, insane, or has he lost the ability to comprehend simple English? Or maybe he’s gotten used to the media overlooking any batshit crazy thing he happens to say, and he’s just careless.

McCainWorld (via Think Progress): “We were greeted as liberators”

Reality: Over 4,000 killed, tens of thousands wounded, many maimed for life. Between 400-1600 attacks against US and coalition forces every week, for the past 240 weeks — but we’re talking about attacks against US and coalition troops numbering in the hundreds of thousands. And McCain calls this. . .

. . . being “greeted as liberators.

McCain seems to inhabit a fantasy world where words mean only what he says they mean, and where reality too is supposed to bend to whatever he happens to say at the time.

Or, attention Kathryn Lopez.

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Dear Donna,

I just wanted you to know — if you didn’t already — that Quentin Tarantino is talking about a remake of your favorite (and mine) Faster, Pussycat, Kill! Kill!. And according to the New York Post his choice to reprise Tura Satana’s part is none other than Tera Patrick.

I’m not sure if I’ve ever seen a Tera Patrick movie (though I think I once had a copy of Leg Show with her in it, doing some kind of bondage/mistress pictorial.) But I do think it’s cool that the Q continues to channel his inner Roger Corman.

This is Ms. Satana:

HuffPo reports that John McCain, despite claiming to meet with “independent and Democratic voters,” in his so-called “Town Hall” meetings, is continuing the Bush tradition of campaigning in a bubble stacked with only friendly partisans. Ironically, McCains flackery is exposed by none other than Faux News:

“I reported at the top of this hour that the campaign had told us at Fox News that the audience would be made up of Republicans, Democrats, and independents. We have now received a clarification from the campaign and I feel I should pass it along to you. The McCain campaign distributed tickets to supporters, Mayor Bloomberg, who of course is a registered Republican, and other independent groups.”

Just carrying on the Bush family tradition, I suppose. How long before he is photographed holding Abdullah’s hand or shining Bandar’s shoes?

A post on Corrente by an ardent Clinton supporter complains that the DNC changed its procedural rules when holding private meetings to decide how to seat delegates from Michigan and Florida!

Of course, the only reason the DNC was even considering the issue was because Clinton and her supporters were insisting on changing substantive prior rulings governing the selection of the Democratic nominees. It was previously determined by the DNC and agreed by all candidates that the Michigan and Florida primaries would not count for purposes of selecting the Democratic party nominee as a consequence to their moving their primaries before Super Tuesday — agreed by all, that is, until Clinton and her supporters insisted that the rules must be changed after it became apparent that the only way in which Clinton could possibly hope to beat Obama was to change the substantive rules for nominee selection after the fact, and change them in a way which wildly favored Clinton’s candidacy!

This classic comment:

the key fact for me is that the dnc

changed its own rules,

“flexed its own rules”,

ignored its rules,

re-wrote its own rules, etc

Apparently changing substantive rules on nominee selection after candidates have acted in reliance on those rules is perfectly okay, but procedural violations (perceived or real) in resolving a dispute caused when one candidate later insists on changing those substantive rules ex post facto is a cardinal sin.

Hopefully, this craziness will stop today, after Clinton makes her endorsement.

from today’s LA Times Pantload-spoor.

“If conservatives swiftboat Michelle Obama, it’s all Hillary Clinton’s fault.”