…on yesterday’s column about the prospect of finding three New Yorkers on your ‘08 presidential ballot.

(1) Wally Fekula corrects me: He was not Mike Bloomberg’s escort out of Salomon Bros., “It was by happenstance that I met Mike by the elevator.” Sorry, Wally.

(2) A couple of Randians have emailed in to tell me how much they dislike being called Randians. Makes them sound like some kind of a cult, said one. Heaven forbid anyone should think that! They are “Objectivists.”

(3) No, you don’t need a subscription to read that Deroy Murdock piece on Rudy in The American Spectator. It’s in here . Makes a nice counter-piece to Kate’s August 7 article in NR.

(4) Lots or interesting & argumentative email, which I’ll do my best to deal with. Also, depressingly but inevitably, this one: “Your article re: left liberal candidates for pres in 08 is BS. Your references to Bloomberg smack of anti-semitic retoric [sic] e.g. rich Jew with a lisp, etc. I’m surprised the Review [sic] lets you out before the public.”

A nice illustration of Derbyshire’s Law, viz.: Anything whatsoever that you say about the Jews, or Jewishness, or even about some individual Jew, will be read as viciously antisemitic by somebody, somewhere.