Roses are red
Violets are blue,
When I bring up Ann Althouse at the list serv,
They all say "Ann who?"

Honestly.

But congrats to those of you who recognize left to right, Jonah Goldberg, Sarah Palin, Miss USA herself, Pammy Atlas, and Michelle Malkin, we did leave Ann Coulter (Miss Congeniality!) out on purpose.

Open thread below....

Ann, I know you're down because another season of American Idol has ended, but please. Put down the wine and take a nice rest. It'll do you some good because this post about you wanting to sue so you can find out if anyone is defaming you on the now defunct Journolist is really a cry for help, I believe.

I'd still like to know. Don't I have a right to know what a gang of 400 journalists are saying about me, as they endeavor to shape my reputation, decide that all the good people must avoid linking to me, or whatever it is they do?

If I were to bring a defamation suit based on Ezra Klein's lie "Ann Althouse sure has a lot of anti-semitic commenters," I would seek access to the Journolist archive, and I believe I would get it. There is no privilege that would shield this information from discovery. Lawyers, argue with me if you think I'm wrong.

One of her readers told Ann the unvarnished truth about her frivolous charade:

I would think a law professor might have a better grasp of this. But on what grounds would you seek the archives? To borrow a popular argument of the right, where in the Constitution does it say you have the right to know what others are saying about you, especially when you have no proof they are saying anything defamatory about you?

I'm here to help you. Really. After the Jessica Valenti incident, I thought you would have calmed down.

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Eric Boehlert is very worried too.

American Street: The GOP plan to break the backs of suffering Americans

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Inside Higher Ed: Organized against labor

INSTAPUTZ: Althouse Putziness

I took pen in hand and, fully caffeinated, was all ready to write something profound and challenging, but I'd filled up the very last page in my Journal with affirming thoughts about the happy, happy day when Ann Althouse actually returns my calls, dammit, even though I wrote really small, and my downstairs copy of The Purpose Driven Life came right to hand, so I took it down and opened it (nice big print).... And thought up some truly merveilleux snark, but the margins were too narrow to contain it. So I didn't actually write anything down. Maybe tomorrow.

I wish I'd said this, but Happy Jihad's House of Pancakes got there first:

[In Mother Knight, Vonnegut has] a beautiful image about how the fascist mind works even in the face of insurmountable logical contradictions. It's like the gears of a cuckoo clock with a couple of teeth filed away on purpose. The clock simply skips that tooth and the gear slips effortlessly into the next groove.

And I wish I'd said this: "When your team is the biggest loser in a generation... It's the little things that make you happy."

These: 1) "Reason 101 why Kirk is better than Picard:"; 2) "Managed to freecycle a wicker kitty bed, the hanging gun rack we had no more room for (and was too small for our collection anyways) and my old 3 person dome tent."; and 3) "To my surprise, the entire issue was devoted to primate foraging strategies."

Or this helpful suggestion to round out botulism-merchandiser Wal-Mart's new line of Christianist toys:

Lot's Wife Salt Doll: Fun to play with...and to lick! Pull the string on her back and Boston's "Don't Look Back" plays.

Or this:  "So, for the record, 'spanking guru James Dobson' will now be referred to here as 'wife-beating apologist James Dobson'." Oh heck, this too: "I don't understand this sign Mitt Romney is waving. MOMA isn't in Chelsea, it's in Midtown, so ... What? Oh."

And finally this:  "Shows what you can do if you do not give in to bitterness."

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Robert Greenwald's Brave New Films has a new blog. Cliff Schecter will be "the blogger-in-chief and video content creator/manager in a large project to enact a clearing house for original content progressive video."

Blue Herald: Jim Swanson's "Week in Review" and other podcasts.

A Save Net Radio update: The Internet Radio Equality Act (H.R. 2060) now has 115 Congressional co-sponsors, but can still use more help. Webcasters are organizing a National Day of Silence for Tuesday, July 26.

Jon Swift: "Everything You Always Wanted To Know About Ann Althouse" puts it all in perspective.

The Aristocrats: The important Zygote-American voting block, because every sperm is sacred. Really. They even dance.

Poetry and Politics: A Poetic Justice, Poets for Peace, Poems From Guantanamo: The Detainees Speak, Mad Kane, and a piece imagining Fallujah.

Guest round up by Batocchio. That's it for me! Thanks! The next week is by Cernig of The Newshoggers (newshog AT gmail DOT com).

The justifications that come out of the right wing blogsphere keep getting sillier by the second. via Whiskey Fire:

The pictures of Jose Padilla being led to the dentist in leg shackles and blackout goggles have provoked outrage and disgust and bafflement. Why the goggles? What's the point?

Althouse has an answer:

Perhaps there is a fear that he will communicate in code by blinking.

Comedy Hour: Ann Althouse calls Glenn Greenwald a disreputable slimeball

Howard Kurtz's "Reliable Sources," will have on John Hinderaker, Jeff Jarvis, and Ann Althouse to discuss Deborah Howell, Jim Brady and the closing down of the comments at post.blog. Let's see how close I get.

Podman and Althouse on Jamie Gorelick. Yes I'm wrong Podman, but you're an idiot. What about Ann?