Following in brother G Gordon’s footsteps, I Lewis Libby (chief of staff to VP Cheney) has been indicted by the Fitzgerald grand jury.

Libby was indicted on charges of perjury, obstruction of justice and making false statements. The five-count indictment charged that he gave misleading information to the grand jury, allegedly lying about information he discussed with three news reporters. It alleged that he committed perjury before the grand jury in March 2004 and that he also lied to FBI agents investigating the case.

Shortly after the indictment was announced, Libby resigned his White House positions.

via WaPo

Rove was not indicted. . . . yet.

Harriet Miers has withdrawn her nomination to the Supreme Court.

(via Wash. Post, Bitch, PhD.)

despite leading 3-2 at one point for a good chunk of the third period, the Penguins just lost in overtime.

again.

is anyone else not at all surprised? I’m sure not.

The NYT reviews the Colbert Report…

“The Colbert Report” is a worthy spinoff, an icy-cold beer chaser to the shot of whiskey that is “The Daily Show.”

If Chairman Mao had been truly prescient, he would have located a little girl in Sichuan Province named Jung Chang and “mie jiuzu”- killed her and wiped out all her relatives to the ninth degree.

But instead that girl grew up, moved to Britain and has now written a biography of Mao that will help destroy his reputation forever. Based on a decade of meticulous interviews and archival research, this magnificent biography methodically demolishes every pillar of Mao’s claim to sympathy or legitimacy.

—Nicholas Kristof, ‘Mao’: The Real Mao, NYT Book Review

Sounds like a very interesting, if sometimes apparently questionably sourced, book. . . . .

So, apparently someone has created an illustrated version of Strunk and White’s Elements of Style. . . .

I’ll be over here, cringing.

Wall Street Journal commentary by David Gelertner · NYTimes review by Jeremy Eichler · Library Journal interview with the artist by Mirela Roncevic · NY Newsday article by Peter Terzian

Many hats to tip: Tina, Edward Vielmetti, and Mark Liberman of Language Log.

Orson Scott Card, on Serenity:

I jealously protected the movie rights to Ender’s Game so that it would not be filmed until it could be done right. … I’ll tell you this right now: If Ender’s Game can’t be this kind of movie, and this good a movie, then I want it never to be made.

I’d rather just watch Serenity again.

He also says:

I’m not going to say it’s the best science fiction movie, ever.

Oh, wait. Yes I am.

Uncle Orson Reviews Everything, via slashdot.

All together now: awwww. (from apostropher, my source and yours for all things cute and spikey.)