TILTPAT-BIDHAT4 (040708, Afternoon)

I’m going to start doing a daily/semi-daily post on:

Things I’d Like To Post About Today — But I Don’t Have Any Time For

After totally abandoning the first rule of acronyms (roughly stated: Using three letters is good, four is OK, five is stretching it, six is the outer limit, and seven or more is ridiculous), I’ve decided to “acronymize” what I just wrote (TILTPAT-BIDHAT4), and to use it as the daily post title until enough people tell me it’s the dumbest thing they’ve ever seen.

The goal is to put up 5-15 links, so I don’t have to agonize over whether I’m going to blog about them (which I usually end up not doing). I think the idea will have legs, but only time will tell.

Anyway, here’s today’s TILTPAT-BIDHAT4 post, restraining (usually, or, er, sometimes) from commenting, and occasionally linking to the blogger and not the underlying story (sorry, Old Media; well, not really):

• USA Today; June 11, 2001 (that’s right) — “Ex-Clinton aides admit Kyoto treaty flawed”
• see-dubya, ably subbing for Michelle Malkin — (my title) “Arizona’s illegal-immigrant employer sanctions law is working”
• ABC subheadline about North Dakota (HT Hot Air Headlines) — “Clinton Asks Obama’s Pledge Delegates to Switch” (that’s right, pledged delegates)
• SLOG News & Arts (HT Instapundit) — (my title) “Someone has the NERVE to use Barack Obama’s full name” (this would be the candidate I refer to as BOOHOO[Barack O-bomba Overseas Hussein “Obambi” Obama])
• Mark Steyn at The Corner (go there to see the title) has an observation I can’t resist repeating, and have some direct experience at receiving — “The left’s Discoursometer is like one of those shower units where the slightest nudge turns it to scalding.”
• ABC’s Political Radar — “Condi Pursuing the VP Slot.” In case you’re not sure, that’s the McCain VP slot (Hmm, that “not commenting” guideline isn’t working out too well, is it?).
• NY Times; April 5 (HT Hot Air) — “Ohio Hospital Contests a Story Clinton Tells.” That NYTimes-ese for “she’s been telling an extra-large whopper, even for her.”
• Hot Air, “Venezuela cements its economic doom” — Definitely a concrete step in that direction.
• NY Times (HT Hot Air); “Vocal on War, McCain Is Silent on Son’s Service” — I think it’s classy of McCain to not capitalize on his son’s service; there may be a valid safety reason not to anyway. At one level, it was classless for the Times to run the story after McCain asked it not to. But it ends up looking like a brilliant , backed-into campaign strategy on the part of Team McCain (perhaps even planned?).