Monday morning roundup

Owls are in danger in India.

Even as a vegetarian, I appreciate that sausage makers balk at comparisons of their process to that of lawmaking.

Of all the slamming of federal employees that goes on, that of the Heritage Foundation has got to be the most rich. No performance incentives, really? Maybe if I were in the private sector like them I'd be more motivated to churn out the steaming piles of shit that are published in that place.

I've posted various versions of this argument, but Mr. Hunt captures the various facets of the wikileaks issue in one piece:

In this light, the analogy to the 1971 Pentagon Papers, which exposed the internal deliberations of Vietnam War decision-making, appears strained. Those documents chronicled years of deliberate lies and misrepresentations that caused a debacle resulting in the loss of hundreds of thousands of lives. There’s nothing comparable in the WikiLeaks.

On the other hand, the “transparency is always good” defense is flawed, too.

The result, short-term at least, will be to discourage candor in cables, just as the immediate aftermath of kiss-and-tell books is to discourage dialogue.

I would love to see a President Hillary Clinton one day.