Another Alabama judge strikes:

A judge refused to delay a trial Tuesday when an attorney objected to his wearing a judicial robe with the Ten Commandments embroidered on the front in gold.
Circuit Judge Ashley McKathan showed up Monday at his Covington County courtroom in southern Alabama wearing the robe. Attorneys who try cases at the courthouse said they had not seen him wearing it before. The commandments were described as being big enough to read by anyone near the judge.
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McKathan told The Associated Press that he believes the Ten Commandments represent the truth “and you can’t divorce the law from the truth. . . . The Ten Commandments can help a judge know the difference between right and wrong.”

Yes, I can see it now: “Hold on, counsel–let me check my robe before I make this evidentiary ruling.”
I think Judge McKathan is in the wrong line of work if he needs special clothing to remind him of the difference between right and wrong.

Retiring U.S. Senator Zell Miller is joining Fox News as a contributor.
I’d pay to see Miller and Bill O’Reilly duel.

This Kerik nomination gone bust would be really funny, except that it reminds us of the incompetents running the executive branch. Many in the media have been pointing out Kerik’s, uh, problems. But here’s an angle on the nomination that hasn’t undergone much scrutiny:

[Michael] ISIKOFF: And my colleague Mark Hosenball uncovered that arrest warrant sitting at his computer working for a few minutes. But one question on the loyalty issue. It’s certainly true that Kerik and Rudy Giuliani worked together when Rudy was mayor and Kerik was the police commissioner and that they’re close personal friends. But it’s also worth remembering that they’re also business partners, have been business partners for the last few years. And that–you know, that’s a factor in considering why Giuliani pushed so hard to get Kerik the job.
MATTHEWS: You mean having him on the inside might have meant some contracts flowing in his direction?
ISIKOFF: Well, we certainly do know enough about Giuliani & Associates to know that they make their business in the security world and offering security assessments and security advice to governments and private contractors.
So I’m sure, if you’re in that line of work, having your business partner as the secretary of homeland security is not unhelpful.

Heh. “Not unhelpful.” That’s quite the understatement. The financial fallout also explains why Senators Schumer and Clinton hopped aboard the Kerik wagon; they saw money in it for New York.

Poor Rumsfeld. It appears that the no-armor-because-of-physics and other assorted excuses have rubbed a few people the wrong way:

SCHWARZKOPF: The humvee was never considered an armored vehicle to begin with. So the system they’ve come up with is a jerry-rigged system which really doesn’t give you much protection when you’re going against being blown from a bump, a mine on a side of a road, or something of that sort.
But they deserve every bit of protection that we can give them. Absolutely. And I was very, very disappointed–let me put it stronger, I was angry about the words of the secretary of defense when he laid it all on the Army. I mean, as if he as the secretary of defense didn’t have anything to do with the Army, if the Army was over there doing it themselves screwing up.

Cue another Bush statement on what a great job the Secretary of Defense is doing.

The first snow flurries of the season have been fluttering around Knoxville last night and today. I guess winter is officially here.
Your results may vary.
UPDATE: According to the official Resonance weather archives, the first snow last year occurred on November 28. This valuable trivia provided to you free of charge as a public service.