Tuesday morning roundup

Crisis is opportunity; Israel has got to be smarter about its peace process.

The last thing Zimbabwe needs right now is diamonds.

An inferior rum brings about jockeying among Puerto Rican and Virgin Islands constituencies.

Haters are also morons, Exhibit A:

Individually, none of the changes is especially dramatic. But taken together, they significantly alter the way gays and lesbians are viewed under federal law.

The administration's effort, made largely under the radar -- and outside the reach of Congress -- has alarmed opponents of gay rights, who accuse the president of undermining traditional marriage even as he speaks about respecting it.

"He's been a supporter of married mothers and fathers in name only," said Jenny Tyree, a marriage analyst for CitizenLink, an affiliate of Focus on the Family. "He speaks very passionately and touchingly about how he grew up without a father. And yet there is this huge disconnect in how he's undermining that same opportunity for other children."

How? How does that undermine opportunities for other children? Explain to me the logic of that. Or, like the Anosognosics in the article I linked to yesterday, if Focus on the Family way to stupid to realize how stupid it is?

Robinson on the now-silenced pro-apology consensus; Applebaum on national reactions to the vuvuzuela as foreign policy analogies.