If you sign this racist idiot’s guestbook (‘hat tip: Michelle Malkin), be sure to misspell all the curse words so they don’t get bleeped out. Moron Crook’s crooked history here.

UPDATE (5/17): Just when I thought this scumbag had gone as low as any person could go, yesterday he took things to yet another level, by attempting to fake his own murder – by two unnamed soldiers, of course.

UPDATE (5/18): Now Crook is claiming to have risen from the dead. Thanks to commenter Lindsay for the tip. So now it’s official: Michael Crook is not dead, just very, very sick.

I just looked out the front window here in Rancho Santa Margarita, and saw my neighbor’s copy of the Dog Trainer sailing down the road at at least 5 mph. I estimate that by 6:00 p.m. it should end up in Laguna Beach, thereby raising the average IQs of both cities.

*MAY CREDIT XRLQ*

Most people didn’t read it here first, but you may have: Michele Catalano is a woman.

Sadly, No holds this truth to be self-evident that every thug who attacks American interests should be entitled to all the same constitutional protections as the ordinary blokes who live here, and takes Human Events Online to task for suggesting otherwise. But the real kicker is the dumb aleck heading:

Guess they studied Con Law with Ann Coutler

Ann “Coutler” (Coulter) studied con law, along with everything else law, at the University of Michigan, a top ten law school, made law review, and later clerked for a federal appellate judge. Obviously, not everyone who studied con law with Ann Coulter made law review or got a federal clerkship, but they did all get in to a top tier law school, so they couldn’t have done too badly by most people’s standards. [Full disclosure: I didn't get in to University of Michigan myself, though I was waitlisted there. As a likely victim of the affirmative action program the Supremes upheld a couple years back, I had to settle for Boalt Hall instead.]

Mr. No, however, finds Coulter’s legal (or at least constitutional) education not only lacking, but so obviously bad that its badness extends far beyond her, tainting anyone who may have studied with her in law school. One possible explanation is that Mr. No is a bit of a snob, whose own law degree came from Yale, where he served not merely as a lowly law review editor but the chief editor, before going on to clerk for a Supreme Court Justice rather than that piddly appellate riff-raff. Any others?

UPDATE: The least consequential problem of this post, the spelling of Ann Coulter’s surname, has been fixed. Has the logic underlying the entry? Sadly, no.

UPDATE x2: In response to this post, Sadly, No has just promoted Coulter from the rank of constitutional idiot, which she’s not, to ” world’s leading constitutional scholar,” which she’s also not, by pegging her to a controversy that has nothing to do with the Constitution. What did I say about mixing sarcasm with ignorance?

I’ve blogged about Schiavo before but have little to add now. Following the story feels too much like watching a snuff film, and I just can’t do it anymore. Dean Esmay has said all I have to say anyway, so be sure to check his entry out.

If you’ve posted a comment here over the past week, there’s a good chance it was lost due to a hardware failure. I’ve rebuilt most of the original posts, and some of the comments, and will try to rebuild more over the weekend.

UPDATE: All the comments are back, as are the last versions of the entries that Google stored. Subsequent revisions have been reconstructed to the extent I can remember what they said.

From today’s Orange County Register:

Come to think of it, I’m pretty sure no bombs went off in Rancho Santa Margarita, either.

Of course, you knew that already. What you may not have known is that he’s an even bigger idiot than previously thought.

UPDATE: Hei Lun begs to differ.

Add Mark Steyn to the ever-growing list of otherwise sensible writers who reported this German prostitution canard as fact long after it had been fully debunked.

Rony Abovitz, the Davos Blogger who famously caused the head of the most busted name in news to Eason down the road, substantially understates (h/t: Prestopundit), his role in the affair:

My role? I can not claim to have been on the sideline of the avalanche, having accidentally set it off with the toss of a snowball. I rode in the with the blogger Huns, pointing out weaknesses in the gates of Rome, breaching it with all of them.

A fair point, but if it weren’t for Abovitz’s first-hand account, the Blogger Huns would have had no way of knowing whom to attack, when or on what basis, or even where Rome was. No reason for Abovitz to go modest about his crucial role in supplying that needed information, making every other blogger’s role relatively easy. Abovitz then goes on to liken the MSM to ancient Rome:

My voice is not loud enough. I am wielding a sword, but it is not the sword which I hope prevails. It is the book which I am wielding in my other hand, the book of Rome restored, of its ideals which have far decayed. Has this Rome ever existed, this Rome of truth, ethics, morality, fairness, and justice? Or has this Rome always been corrupt, amoral, a fourth estate as rotten as the others?

I’d go one better. This fourth estate slash fifth column of a “Rome” has always been corrupt and amoral, and in fact more corrupt than the others. Or, if you prefer, as corrupt as two of the other three would be if we didn’t have the option of voting them out every few years. I didn’t vote for Eason Jordan, Dan Rather or even Michael Kinsley. Did you?