Getting back up to speed

After you take a few days off blogging, it's kind of hard to get back up to speed. When I feel like linking to something, I think, "Ah, people have probably seen that already." Nevetheless:

Instapundit writer Glenn Reynolds, a famous conservative who weakly denounces the label, says in a Guardian column, "I'd be delighted to live in a country where happily married gay couples had closets full of assault weapons." Let us pause to consider that vision for a moment. First of all, how many "happily" married couples, of any gender combination, do you know? And if they're not all that happy, would you really want them all to have "closets full" of assault weapons? Second, I doubt it was just a slip that he used the word "closets" in the context of talking about gay couples. If they're out of the closet, and their guns are in the closet, does that mean they are secret gun owners? ... I could go on, but instead:

Reporters are gleefully deflating Cheney's statement about having met Edwards for the first time at their debate, as well as Cheney goofing with "factcheck.com." I'll let the AP story take it from here:

In answering a question about his involvement with Halliburton, Cheney meant to direct people to FactCheck.org, a nonpartisan site run by the University of Pennsylvania's Annenberg Public Policy Center. He urged people watching the debate to go to the site for facts countering Edwards' statements about the corporation Cheney used to run.

But Cheney cited FactCheck.com, a for-profit advertising site based in the Cayman Islands.

The company decided to redirect traffic to ...a site run by George Soros, a billionaire who makes no secret of his opposition to the Bush administration, after it became inundated with hits -- about 100 a second after the debate, John Berryhill, a Philadelphia lawyer for FactCheck.com, said Wednesday.

"This was to relieve stress on the service and to express a political point of view," said Berryhill, who spoke with the site's administrators shortly after the debate ended.

Makes you wonder what Cheney said that was accurate.