• Once and for all, the Powerline menage is not gay. They just happen to be mad for beauty pageants. [Powerline]

• Wonk'd! An inside source at the Washington Times shares: "Guess who's here today? I'll give you a hint: he's not wearing his crown, but he's got four tour buses of Moonies with him. Which explains why they've been sprucing this dump up for the past week." Umm, Rove?

• Another operative fills us in on World Bank job opportunities: "Apparently this job was posted internally for 6 months, but no one would apply because Wolfowitz's girlfriend wants it. It's true too--I have a friend who applied for the job externally. She said she's probably got no shot (due to wolfowitz's g/f), and that everyone at the world bank is scared to death of pissing his girlfriend off."

• Some patriots inquire about the Patriot Act. [The Unequivocal Notion]

• If you think turning barbaric acts of terrorism into a marketing come-on is in bad taste, have the terrorists won? [ABCNews.com]