Mickey Kaus:

Alert reader J: “Interesting that the WaPo could write an entire article on the decline of public housing in NYC without ever mentioning the words “ACLU,” “liberalism,” and “Lindsay.” [Link added] … True! The piece–on Sotomayor’s childhood–makes it seem as if the projects were just suddenly swamped by waves of drugs (”Then heroin surged through the projects … Then came crack …”) as opposed to, say, an increasingly concentrated culture of fatherless dependence in which drug users and dealers and gang members couldn’t be evicted because of misguided due process concerns about deprivation of “new property”! .

That is, the bad things that happened to the projects that Sotomayor used to live in were more or less the result of what is still Sotomayor’s judicial philosophy. But why should she worry? She’s going to work in Washington…and live in Georgetown.

As a pundit, it’s my sworn duty to have an opinion on the Iranian election.

Unfortunately, I don’t know anything about Iranian psephology, and it would no doubt take a huge amount of time to learn enough to formulate an opinion worth expressing, so I have no opinion to offer.

I’m sorry that I have failed in my obligations.

In my defense, I did mention several times back in 2006 that I was suspicious that the party of the left got ripped off in the Mexican election. But very few other people in the American press acted at all concerned about the validity of the Mexican election, so I guess that’s no defense for me and my lack of an opinion on Iranian vote-counting. After all, Mexico is only our neighbor while Iran is obviously much more important, what with it being on the other side of the world and all.