Mike Gravel is also a hoot, though perhaps in a slightly more intentional way than Lurita Doan.

Lurita Doan is a hoot.

TPM points to this essay, in which FindLaw columnist Vikram Amar argues that the Wisconsin statute directing the governor to keep Craig Thomas's Senate seat in GOP hands is quite possibly unconstitutional.

There is a very strong textual argument that the Seventeenth Amendment prevents the Wyoming legislature from dictating the Governor's choices in making a temporary appointment: The Amendment's language differentiates between a state "legislature" and a state "executive" authority, and allows a state legislature not to make or constrain any temporary appointments itself, but rather only to "empower the [state] executive to make [the] appointment."

The essay's a bit boring (in the grand tradition of law professors), but it makes a pretty compelling point.

Those pesky former generals are giving Bush all manner of trouble.

Creationists are funny.

Fox News doesn't actually know who Bill Jefferson is.

Andy Card visits Amherst. Awesome.

Righteous indignation abounds. Kos has been great all day; AMERICAblog has been great, too, and linked to an excellent commentary by Keith Olbermann; and TAPPED, though strangely silent so far, did at least point to a good post at MyDD.

On the real-people front, John Edwards came out in a hurry, and Chris Dodd was right on his heels. No word yet from most of the rest.

So if a picture tells a thousand words, and a sound tells a thousand pictures, then what happens when the sound is a recording of a single word? Does the world end?

AMERICAblog's John Aravosis nicely summarizes the Democrats' capitulation on timetables:

Sure, this time we caved, but next time boy that President Bush better watch out.

TPM notices that the New York Times has been paying less attention to Edwards than to Hillary or Obama.

This is a couple of weeks old, but it's a pretty great story, so I'll go ahead and post it anyway. According to former U.S. Attorney John McKay (who does admittedly have an ax to grind), one of Gonzales's first appearances before the assembled U.S. Attorneys was a speech that went like this:

"His first speech to us was a 'you work for the White House' speech," McKay recalled. "'I work for the White House, you work for the White House.'" ...

[McKay] looked around the meeting room and caught the eyes of his colleagues, who gave him looks of surprise at Gonzales' remarks. "We were stunned at what he was saying."

"Stunned," of course, because they'd all watched Gonzales's confirmation hearing a few weeks earlier, during which he'd said this:

And I feel a special obligation, maybe an additional burden coming from the White House to reassure the career people at the department, and to reassure the American people that that I'm not going to politicize the Department of Justice.

That's some good reassury.