If pop culture images today like this:



are responsible for eating disorders among women, then were paintings like this:



responsible for an obesity epidemic in the 1600s?

Just so I can get this straight, let's clarify. When Attorney General Eric Holder disagrees with OLC's opinion that the DC voting rights bill is unconstitutional, and instead adopts the same position as noted liberals Ken Starr and Viet Dinh that the bill is constitutional, that makes him a "craven political hack." But when he overrides line prosecutors and moves to dismiss the conviction of former Republican Senator Ted Stevens, he's doing the right thing. Yeah, I've got it. Makes perfect sense.

Hola, the three readers Milbarge and I have in common. To everyone else, aloha.

As you may have noticed, there's been a precipitous drop in postage here at BTQ. I'm not really sure where everyone else went (Fitz-Hume, the Ace Tomato dude, Nataliya...probably some other people too), so I figured I would pick up the pace. At first, I offered to do the occasional law-related post and leave my own blog for cat blogging, but Milbarge offered me BTQ outright. !!! My very own BTQ?! Holy guano!

I hemmed and hawed over it for a while. I felt kind of bad riding BTQ's coattails (I assume their readership is like, 5,000 times more than mine), but Milbarge, ever the gentleman, told me to run with it. He even said he'd keep paying for the domain name. Sweet! Pretty much my only restriction is not to turn this into a total cat blog. Can do.

He's still welcome to put in the occasional post (in other words, as much as he's been doing lately) but from this point forward, I'm going to be McCharles in Charge.

Expect big things.

UPDATE from Milbarge: For more information, go here. Thanks, McPan!