KOC (Keith Olbermann Concession)
PS (Pot-shots)

KOC=PS

For every concession, there must be at least one pot-shot at people he dislikes...To wit:

There doesn't appear to have been anything illegitimate about the actions of a "manufacturer's rep" at the Board of Elections of Hocking County, Ohio, about two weeks ago.

Barring the biggest of possible evidentiary surprises - something so overwhelming and conclusive that it would convince police, FBI, and the Republican Party that Ohio's vote was fatally flawed - even a formal challenge would be, at best, a token protest.

Had there been a reversal of the poles in this political equation, of course, the impenetrable Sean Hannity would be in his 49th consecutive day of broadcasting without sleep, and by now would've already announced that Democrats from Outer Space had stolen the election.

As we may have seen in the Sherole Eaton case in Ohio, a sworn deposition can be less than it seems.

Republicans are invulnerable:

Even before the President's second term has begun, this too has been disproved. He and his administration are already under attack - by their own party.

Thus its failure on Kerik simplifies into a fielder's choice: either the extraordinary contortions our society has been asked to perform since 9/11 can’t catch the most obvious of transgressors, or the Administration isn't spending enough time in the good-old Reality-Based World.

I have to throw this in somewhere. As noted previously, I am periodically harangued by a handful of official right-wing nuts.

They are remarkably entertaining - like listening to Ann Coulter, only without the audio accompaniment of her shrill whistle of hate - but one of them got me genuinely angry the other day, and made me doubt the value of our educational system.

So that's one more PS total than KOC's...

See what I mean?