Things about which I am not blogging

1.  We’re replaying Vietnam in Iraq and Afghanistan.  Where does this end?  The last report I read was Obama, or someone in his administration saying, “it’s not our fault, it’s the Iraqis fault.”  Yeah, right.  My son shouldn’t have been running around barefoot on the docks last night when he got his splinter.  It was his fault?  Did that preclude us from taking him for treatment when we saw the splinter was in much deeper than we could manage by ourselves?  (More on that later, by the way, when we get the bills.)  

Am I saying that the Iraqis are children?  Well, strictly speaking, no — but the point is nonetheless that the Obama administration needs to be mature enough to recognize that it’s not enough just to say, “It’s not my fault.”  

2.  Lois Lerner’s e-mails are now unexpectedly lost.  This is scary stuff — we’ve gone from corruption to cover-up.  Will this be the end of the line?  Are the Republicans powerless?  Will the administration and the IRS succeed in their stonewalling?  (Yeah, I don’t have a link — there are plenty out there, especially as linked to by instapundit.com)

3.  The continual flow of youth and families over the border, and the game of saying, “they are not eligible for legal residency” when, so far as I can tell, these border-crossers seem to be reasonably satisfied with the opportunity to live in the current quasi-legal state that existing illegal immigrants possess, in which they use false IDs to work and obtain repeated assurances that, as long as they don’t commit a crime, they won’t be deported.

4.  Moving from “hard” politics to social issues, actor Jason Patric is engaged in a court fight, not for visitation rights for his son, but for the right to be recognized as father rather than as “sperm donor,” and the mother is fighting for the right to have the very existence of a father for her son legally erased.  Best interest of the child?  Doesn’t enter into the case at all:  the mother’s claim is simply that she has a right to be the sole parent to this child.

This is disturbing, when a child becomes the mother’s property.  And how many similar cases are there, which don’t make the news because neither party is a celebrity?