FRIDAY 'ROUND-THE-HORN.

The greatest movie awards song medley of all time.

•   It's a small blessing, I guess, that most of the other Republican candidates have distanced themselves from Donald Trump's Muslim registry idea. All it really means is that these shitheels calculate Americans would not approve of it, but that's still positive -- it's when they start calculating that Americans would approve such a thing that things are grim. (You know, like the way many Republicans talk about torture as if it's an American value, instead of something that, once upon a time, we insisted we didn't do.) Of course there's always one skunk at the picnic:

"But the mosque piece of it is the controversial piece, so where do you stand on that?" [Megyn] Kelly jumped in to ask. 

"Well, I think it’s not about closing down mosques. It’s about closing down any place, whether it’s a cafe, a diner, an internet site, any place where radicals are being inspired," the senator [Marco Rubio] said. "The bigger problem we have is our inability to find out where these places are because we’ve crippled our intelligence programs."

I don't know whether he's just that dumb or whether he or one of his campaign people decided this was the best way to distinguish him from the rest of the field on the subject. Well, he's got Breitbart.com's John Nolte on board anyway:

Proving once again that the DC Media lies are no longer effective when it comes to emotionally blackmailing Republican politicians, presidential candidate Sen. Marco Rubio (R-FL) picked up right where frontrunner Donald Trump left off on the issue of closing radical mosques.

I know Nolte represents some kind of constituency, but won't most of them be thrown out of their polling places when they insist on marking their ballots with pistol fire?

•   The perfect anti-Obama froth is an unachievable Platonic idea, but the second graf of this David Gelernter full-body thrash at National Review (the classy conservative magazine!) gets closer than most:

The reviews are in: the whole world, friend and foe, left and right, east and west, north and south, understands the President of the United States to be a naïf and a fool. The outstanding question is only whether he is a good man over his head (as the global Left seems to believe) or — as the evidence suggests — he has always looked at America and Americans with snide condescension. That seems to be his favorite emotion.

I know what you're thinking. Alas, there is no link to support the claim that everyone, left or right, feels the way David Gelernter feels, and a good thing, too, as that would qualify as a genuine mental health crisis. I think the little sputtering side-rage at the end -- "that seems to be his favorite emotion" -- really makes it; you're not really frothing unless you flail out at least one irrelevancy. But your mileage may vary. Next!