Yesterday, it was revealed that the Air Force moved some nukes over the U.S., and reportedly did so by accident. This caused a flurry of reactions after these facts were leaked, along with the expected speculation over what signal this was meant to send to whom. The obvious message was "we're capable of doing/screwing over anything," and the recipient was all mankind. But the blogosphere has been trying to tease nuance out of broken arrows.

While we're speculating, though, the incident brought to mind an urban legend I heard in the seventies. As I recall, it was an anecdote related to the branch of JFK assassination theory that postulated Lyndon Johnson working with the mafia to perform the evil deed. So we're already way down the tinfoil turnpike, here. Just for period authenticity, I'm not even going to Google for it. That's not how urban legendizing was done back then.

For the past several days, while election fervor has swept America and the blogosphere, the Blair Government is under increasing scrutiny by the Metropolitan Police.

It has come to light that a number of well-heeled gentlemen allegedly swapped secret loans to the Labour Party for its recent election campaign, in exchange for peerages.

This is the big story in Britain right now, and I've only begun to follow it myself. More below the fold.

The Founding Fathers discarded the document that made God the author of the country (the Articles of Confederation), in favor of that other one that starts with those very precise three words, putting the People as the ultimate author of the Law. (This new one worked much better.)

Since the offices ennumerated after those words have gotten filled with dynasts, defrauders and millionaires, it's been difficult for the People to get their attention. Breaking the law no longer matters much to these officeholders.

So I've taken to ordering them around, starting with my Senator, Hillary Rodham Clinton.