UPDATE — As of 1000 today the link from Wonkette.com has pushed my ‘unique visitor’ count beyond what it is in a normal month. The ‘page load’ count is nearly double the monthly average. My bandwidth bill is going to look like a mortage payment if this trend continues. All because I posted a picture of a redneck wearing a shirt touting his dick size.

Another day when I really need to say something relevant, and I’ve got nothing on my mind worth listening to. Again, because of Wonkette.com I’ve had more traffic this morning than I would normally in two days.

Anyway, here’s today’s randomness:

• If we’re going to put 6,000 Guardsmen on the Mexican border we should let them do more than just stand around in the heat. Give them ‘shoot on sight’ orders, or let them put out land mines, or shoot artillery at border crossers.

• How high does your water bill have to be to make sleeping with the 72 year old mayor sound attractive? And it’s not like the old guy is making the bill go away, he’s just giving you a discount. To paraphrase Don King, ‘Only in Arkansas, only in Arkansas.’

• Releasing the video of the Pentagon attack is a good thing. Maybe now we can end the talk about it being an errant cruise missile. I know people that were there that day, and they will attest that it was definitely a plane that crashed into their office on 9/11.

• The Orange line is always crowded, so how is this news? The only solution is to spend billions and billions of dollars to make the tunnel under the Potomac wider. Until then, just squeeze a little tighter to the person next to you and try to make a new friend.

• When The Times runs a story on the Redskins training diet as the lead in its Nation/Politics section, is it any wonder why circulation is in a tailspin?

The boss is out of the office all week, and I’m out for the next two days. That means I’ve got to cram in a week’s worth of work today so it won’t look like I fucked off the whole time he was gone.

Later.