Before you start criticizing Bill Bennett for saying something as offensive as: “But I do know that it’s true that if you wanted to reduce crime, you could, if that were your sole purpose, you could abort every black baby in this country, and your crime rate would go down,” it pays to give him some credit where credit is due.

He is the world’s best example that you can seem like a pretty intelligent guy and actually be a complete idiot.

It’s worth keeping the “Bennett Lesson” in mind.

His affliction is not at all rare…

There’s no way traveling back in forth to hurricane zones for a series of denim-shirted photo ops could actually change the country’s general perspective on the President, right?

Um, wrong…

Ski San Francisco?

More proof here…

Judith Miller has been released from jail after agreeing to testify in the CIA Plame case.

Her source is now known (he reportedly freed her from keeping him confidential).

So now we know. It came from up there. Way, way, way up there.

I. Lewis Libby.

This man will soon become the most talked about Scooter since the Segway.

It was just my 20th high school reunion (I know, my logo dude doesn’t look that old) which I had to miss for a prior engagement.

But the combination of that event (I got a blow-by-blow from friends) and the swearing in of Chief Justice Roberts got me thinking.

Forget politics and the future of certain laws.

Just imagine you’re John Roberts and you walk into your high school renunion and someone comes up and says, “Oh, hey. So what are you up to these days?”

Maybe the Onion hired Tom DeLay. How else do you explain this quote:

“This is one of the weakest, most baseless indictments in American history.”