Iyad Allawi, Robert Nozick, and licking bathroom floors

• The right is angry that a Kerry staffer had the gall to accuse Iyad Allawi of being a puppet. Publius is angry for a different reason: "I for one am sick and tired of hearing attacks on those who attack failed policies that got our troops killed, destabilized the Middle East, and have been the biggest gift ever to militant Islam." [Via Washington Monthly]
• Robert Nozick is a principled libertarian. Except, apparently, when there's an opportunity to extort $30,000.
• Yglesias on being bold: "Does anyone really believe, after all, that our enemies currently lack for boldness of all things?"
• As The Apple Turns points out that there were over 5,000 new Windows viruses in the first half of 2004: "Meaning that, if using Mac OS X is like, say, breathing through a mask in a sterile operating room of a top-rated internationally-known hospital, then Windows is roughly equivalent to licking every surface in a gas station bathroom and then kissing... Tommy Lee full on the mouth."