I know I promised, but these two crabap­ples were swing­ing from the low branches, and I couldn’t resist:

+ Over at the National Review, they can’t figure out why on God’s green earth Google wouldn’t want to com­mer­cial­ize the 9/11 tragedy by putting–what, a sketch of smok­ing towers?–on its home page.

+ And at the Wash­ing­ton Post George Will has pub­lished a column–on this day of all days–that argues fire­fight­ers are making too much money. Oh, and the head­line, keep­ing it classy, is “Pension Time Bomb.” (Hat tip: David Sirota and Rick Perlstein.)