Ayman al-Zawahri: "Welcome to the Terrordome"

• After next year, the only Republican left in Congress will be Admiral Robert Byrd.

• Michael Chertoff explains that we must welcome Iraqi refugees with open arms. They are superior to Mexicans, who we absolutely must not welcome.

• Someday, men will think with their balls and it will be declared a medical triumph.

• Did Nick Gillespie seriously just refer to Ayman al-Zawahri as the Professor Griff of al-Qaeda? I look forward to bin Laden kicking him out of the group for making anti-semitic remarks.

• Another inappropriate analogy: Dick Cheney isn't like Darth Vader, because Anakin Skywalker actually agreed to fight in the Clone Wars, while Cheney had "other priorities."

• Also, Dick Cheney thought Mandela should have remained locked up, back in 1986, and still stands by his vote. Darth Vader, obviously, donned a black exoskeleton as a gesture of solidarity with the anti-Apartheid movement.
  

• James "Waste of Oxygen" Dobson doesn't like Fred "Waste of Oxygen" Thompson.

• I mentioned this briefly yesterday, but with an increasingly competitive Democratic presidential race, the nomination may come down to delegates more than states won. This means that 2008 is really the ideal time to vote your conscience, even if it seems idealistic or impractical. Try to give your preferred candidate some delegates, so that when the convention rolls around at the actual nomination happens, they can barter policy for delegates. If Hillary needs delegates to get ahead over Obama, she can turn to Richardson or Edwards or Dodd or whomever, all of whom will want policy concessions in order to pledge the support of their delegates. This is how a coherent party platform gets built: a single unifying leader is important, but it's a leader that has had to adopt the wisdom of his or her competitors to win.
  

• John McCain's campaign just sent around an email saying that they're "not going anywhere but up." Perhaps that's because they're floating right around rock bottom right now.

• Giuliani: oops!

• The Senate has voted overwhelmingly to collectively disapprove of MoveOn.org's "General Betray Us" ad. However, they refused to disapprove of political attacks on soldiers in general, such as the Swift Boat Veterans for Truth calumny in 2004, and the ads that cast Vietnam veteran and triple amputee (now ex-) Senator Max Cleland as a terrorist.

• I can't wait to hear the Andrew W.K./Lee "Scratch" Perry album.
  

• Fifty points to anyone who can tell me what's wrong with this ad: