I know. I haven’t posted anything since Monday. I you want to know why, here is the short version: For most of the past five years I have been a department of one. On Monday I became a part of a department of two, and responsible for training the “rest” of the staff. Add to that a hard drive meltdown (work computer, not here at home) and I have been spending a great deal of time and effort at the day job. Just to make things interesting at home as well, eight to ten men have been on top of the house all week replacing the roof. Shorter version, it’s been a chaotic week.

Interesting stories in my feed reader are starting to really pile up. I seriously doubt that I will get around to posting on any of the older ones, but there are several things that I would really recommend taking a look at:

Seriousness Merges With Satire in Iconographic Obama News Coverage P.J. Gladnick intertwines the extremely humorous Gerard Baker satire with a “serious” article by Euan Ferguson of the UK Observer. The differences are slight in a scary/funny sort of way.

One more from Newsbusters — the story about New Mexico Rep. Heather Wilson taking on and taking down Robert (You Mean I’m Supposed To Live There) Wexler and host Chris (Obama Mancrush) Matthews over Obama’s Berlin speech.

Rick Moran dares utter the TOP TEN THINGS THAT CREEP ME OUT ABOUT OBAMA. A dead on list that gives me (and should give others) the full body shudders.

Don Surber examines the first thirteen quotes from Barack Obama on Meet the Press (7/27) and concludes, rightly, “Without a script to read, Obama makes Dan Quayle sound bright, articulate and — Well, I, I, I — we need a, a, a more serious — eloquent. George Walker Bush is a regular Lincoln by comparison.”

Leo Pusateri writing at Blogs For Victory examines a movement in the state of Oklahoma that thinks the 10th amendment to the U.S. Constitution means what it says. Here is Leo’s set up:

The Tenth Amendment, which is supposed to hold weight equal to the First, Second and every other Amendment to the United States Constitution, has in the last 80 years been regarded as “a nice idea” but optional. This has resulted in usurpation of powers from the States in everything from health care to education (and everything in between).

Far from being taken seriously, the Tenth Amendment has become the red-headed stepchild of the Constitution, and has been ignored with impunity by the Federal government.

Do read the rest.

Well, that get’s me up to only a few days behind, but it’s time to go.