The George Mason faculty came out against the Patriot Act–and the Washington Post unloaded its big guns on John Bolton. Can the news get any worse for Rove? . . . Ed Kilgore finds in the attack on Bolton an opportunity for a little bit of bipartisanship. What struck me about the article was Robin Givhan’s anxiety about newsworthiness. She doesn’t just want to write a piece about how a figure in the news presents himself sloppily and thus serves as a warning for us all. That article wouldn’t be my cup of tea, but there’s room in the world for fashion columnists. But no! There has to be a serious point here to justify all the cattiness. So the article has a thesis: that Bolton’s sloppiness amounted to “insolence” and “disrespect” for the Senate, the United Nations, the American public, and possibly God. Give me a break.