As a New Yorker, I can't say I've ever been much impressed with Mike Bloomberg as mayor - no particular animus; I think he's as good a Mayor as the City is likely to get - but outside of his high-handed repeal of NYC's term-limits law, I can't say that he has done anything particularly noteworthily good OR bad during his tenure. Until today.

TERRORIST ATTACK IN FLORIDA!!

House of worship bombed in Jacksonville - FBI, Local law-enforcement have evidence perp planted, detonated pipe bomb and gasoline ; film at eleven!

By now, 40+ hours on, it probably isn't "news" anymore about the failed car bombing in NYC's Times Square on Saturday evening.

Seemingly, as if the brutal shooting of four police officers in Lakeland, WA wasn't a bad-enough tragedy on its own, the media and blogosphere have discovered yet another "political" angle to work: the suspected gunman, Maurice Clemmons, had been convicted of various crimes in Arkansas some years ago, and had had his sentence commuted by then-Gov. Mike Huckabee.

And of course, the main question which I am sure is on everyone's mind - or at least that fortunate and elite subset of "everyone" who logs on here - is:

WTF has happened to The Forvm?????

Otherwise a thread to get us back to June '09...

I do realize this is thinly- (OK, singly-) sourced, and highly speculative: but Josh Marshall cites an article
from The Times (UK) about the McCain organization's latest "fantastic" idea
to garner media attention and revive a flagging campaign:

Televise Bristol Palin's wedding .

I also realize that "I do not think that word means what you think it means"

While leafing through the New York Times this morning, I first turned, as usual, to the Opinion section, and the featured "contributor" piece on the Op-Ed page was enough to put a palpable chill on an otherwise warm summer's morning. Namely, Israeli historian Benny Morris's rather bland and matter-of-fact invocation of thermonuclear war:

"Using bombs to stave off war"

Well, the latest results are in -- The Democrats' Rules and Bylaws Committee have "finally" resolved the delegate issue for Florida and Michigan today: and the Clinton campaign, once again, has come up short

This just in:

Adm. William Fallon, only recently appointed head of US CENTCOM has resigned - his resignation accepted "reluctantly" by SecDef Gates.

Any idea on what this might portend? The initial take seems to be that differences with the Administration regarding the desirability of an attack on Iran were the proximate cause of the Admiral's departure: and of course, the usual blogosphere suspects are hyperventilating over the imminence of yet another war.

Likely? Unlikely? Stock-up-on-canned-goods-and-bottled-water time?

Mitt Romney calls it quits:

With the following measured and statesmanlike commentary: