Michael Brown resigns in disgrace, and they keep paying him? That just doesn't seem right.

Brown told congressional investigators Monday that he is being paid as a consultant to help FEMA assess what went wrong in the aftermath of Hurricane Katrina, according to a senior official familiar with the meeting.

How is it that no one noticed the fifty-two extra seconds that appeared from thin air during the fourth quarter of the New England-Pittsburgh game?

Disclaimer: I was actually watching the game at the time, and I did not notice it.

Move over, Nellie! There's a new Benator in town:

Affleck spokesman Ken Sunshine said the rumors are baseless, though "he would be a superb candidate for public office in the future. Right now, he's very busy directing his first feature movie for Disney, 'Gone, Baby, Gone.'"

"Can we wrap this scene, please!? I've got a caucus in fifteen goddamn minutes!" (Or, perhaps more accurately: "Can we wrap this caucus, please!? I've got a scene in fifteen goddamn minutes!")

Follow-up: Mark Warner hears the Ben Affleck rumor. Laughs.

This is sappy, but I have to admit that it makes me like Charlie Weis.

Steven "Loneliest Man in the World" Stough. A Dover (Pennsylvania) Republican who believes in evolution.

"You can dress up intelligent design and make it look like science, but it just doesn't pass muster," said Mr. Stough, a Republican whose idea of a fun family vacation is visiting fossil beds and natural history museums. "In science class, you don't say to the students, 'Is there gravity, or do you think we have rubber bands on our feet?'"

From the Amazon review of Help! Mom! There Are Liberals Under My Bed!

"This full-color illustrated book is a fun way for parents to teach young children the valuable lessons of conservatism."

Sounds like a hoot.

Britain's Observer headlines an article: "Flipper the firing dolphin let loose by Katrina." And I though the Idaho weatherman story was a trip.

Bill for First Lady. Nicely done.

From a long San Francisco Chronicle article about Pat Tillman's life and death:

Baer, who served with Tillman for more than a year in Iraq and Afghanistan, told one anecdote that took place during the March 2003 invasion as the Rangers moved up through southern Iraq.

“I can see it like a movie screen,” Baer said. “We were outside of (a city in southern Iraq) watching as bombs were dropping on the town. We were at an old air base, me, Kevin and Pat, we weren’t in the fight right then. We were talking. And Pat said, ‘You know, this war is so f— illegal.’ And we all said, ‘Yeah.’ That’s who he was. He totally was against Bush.”

An undoubtedly-former intern learns the importance of dialing carefully.

"You are a fishmonger."

Randomly-generated Shakespearean insults. Great fun.

(Another great insult generator can be found here.)

David Brooks writes a good piece contrasting Kerry and the Fightocrats with Edwards and the Poorocrats.