BILL HOBBS has annotated Maureen Dowd’s latest column with hyperlinks. The result is quite interesting.

Meanwhile Ann Althouse wonders what’s happened to Dan Rather: “Did Barbara Walters tutor him on how to do celebrity interviews? At my house, we were laughing quite a lot at Rather. He was speaking in an extra-slow, extra-sensitive way that might have been appropriate for addressing a child.”

Maybe he was trying to maximize his Amazon referral fees. Not that there’s anything wrong with that!