FAMILY BUSINESS: "U.S. Attorney Jim Letten announced this afternoon that 4th District Assessor Betty Jefferson, an elder sister of U.S. Rep. William Jefferson, has been indicted on a host of fraud-related charges by a federal grand jury. Also indicted were Jefferson's daughter, Angela Coleman, and her brother, the previously indicted Mose Jefferson."

PRESTON GRALLA: "If Google really wanted to deliver a knockout punch to Microsoft, it would integrate OpenOffice with Google Docs, and sell support for the combined suite to small businesses, medium-sized business, and large corporations. . . . Imagine if a version of it were available as a Web service from Google, combined with massive amounts of Google storage. Integrated with Google Docs, it would also allow online collaboration."

I like OpenOffice. And I use Google Docs for everything that doesn't need footnotes. If Google Docs supported footnotes, I'd use it for law review articles.

MORE ON THE Bakken oil formation.

MEGAN MCARDLE: "Even if you don't like Barack Obama, I think you should be happy that the country has, with really very little fuss, nominated a black man with a very good shot at the presidency."

Indeed.

AN END TO POLITICAL DYNASTIES? Not so fast.

MICHELE CATALANO: "A new 'Wall of Shame' policy in Long Island makes one ask: are our drunk driving laws so ineffective that we have to resort to humilation as punishment and deterrent?" I suspect that the humiliation is an end, not a means.

MCCAIN CHALLENGES OBAMA TO TEN TOWNHALL DEBATES.

NEW YORK TIMES: Clinton to endorse Obama on Friday.

WELL, DUH: "Who should Obama choose as a running mate? Obviously, Colin Powell. He fixes Obama's national security deficit, strengthens the Republican/independent appeal, and completes Obama's narrative about post-partisanship." Plus, if you won't vote for an Obama/Powell ticket, you're twice as racist as if you wouldn't vote for Obama alone!

A NEW KIND OF ceramic bakeware.

THIS SEEMS LIKE OVERREACH, even for Canada's kangaroo-court "Human Rights" Commissions:

The entire blogosphere was put on trial during the second day of a B.C. Human Rights Tribunal hearing into an excerpt of a controversial book published in Maclean's.

Of course, since half the blogs in creation seem to have covert HRC investigators/provocateurs posting racist comments, maybe it's fair . . . . (emphasis added).

MORE ON REZKO, from Rick Moran: "While the governor and other top politicians in the state almost certainly should be worried about what Rezko might tell the prosecutor, no one can say for sure if Rezko would have anything of interest to spill about Barack Obama."

UPDATE: Mickey Kaus on "Fitzmas in reverse."

ANOTHER UPDATE: Jeralyn Merritt: "Second, as to Obama, this trial was not about him. There is not a shred of evidence to suggest any connection between him and the illegal activity charged in the case. The Government said so. Obama's name was barely mentioned at the trial. Rezko's case is important in the context of government corruption in Illinois."

MORE: Reader William Boggess emails:

I would kindly reinforce, as a resident of Illinois, that the Rezko trial is precisely an indictment of Illinois politics, and that Senator Obama is a direct product of that system. No more, no less. Republican or Democrat, at the state level, they've become intertwined, fighting over the spoils. There is a very specific reason that the second largest FBI office in the entire US is in Chicago. The level of corruption is to a point where it's considered part of the "normal cost of doing business", right down to garbage collection. It's that pervasive. And taxes are the legal side of the extortion racket.

You have NO idea.

Well, I have some idea.

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