Bill O'Reilly, ketchup, and BJs

• Clarence Page shows why the conservative media both hates and loves Dan Rather. "Ever since Rather answered a snippy remark from President Nixon (Now, there's a heckuva hero to have!) with a snippy remark of his own back in the Watergate era, the right has been gunning for steely Dan." [Via Tapped]
• "Mad Dog" Bill O'Reilly invents French publications and thinks Palestinians are boring. [Via kottke.org]
• Learn more than you ever wanted to know about ketchup, "the only true culinary expression of the melting pot". [Also via kottke.org]
• What do you expect a blog entry to be about when its title is "This BJ's going to be either really good (or really bad)..."?
• Josh Marshall is snark-master supreme. "Don Rumsfeld said yesterday that elections in "three-quarters or four-fifths of" Iraq might be good enough. In other words, run the place on Florida rules."