The most excellent Bob Harris (whose only two flaws are that he doesn’t have comments, and hasn’t updated his link from Old Corrente to our new joint here) has a poll up. Here are your choices, and the only flaw I can see in them is that there is no option for All Of The Above On Sequential Days With No Evident Cognitive Dysfunction:

How would Scottie McClellan spin things if Karl Rove had gotten caught holding up a liquor store?

—He’s simply the victim of an overzealous security camera

—This just shows that the special prosecutor didn’t have enough evidence to go for Murder One, so clearly there has been no real crime

—I dodged this question earlier, and I stand by those remarks

—This is nothing more than the Democrats’ partisan attempt to criminalize armed robbery

This one I’m not bumping to the main page because I don’t want to push Chicago Dyke’s superlative entry downstream any earlier than necessary just for a bit of snark. Go read it if you haven’t already. It represents an introduction to what is probably the most important answer to the question of How in the Name of God Did We Get Into This Medieval Mess In the Year 2005??

Hint: it wasn’t the takeover of the media by the VRWC, it was the takeover of the market for grad students in history.