We were blogging-negligent last week, readers, having the primary election to cover. And that means we got behind in our observations. We remedy that today with a list of Quick Hits, still fresh thanks to the preservative of our acerbic wit. They’re FDA-safe! Here we go!

• Here’s a fun drinking game. Any time a Bush administration official bitches about how wrong it is for the Russians to invade a sovereign nation, take a shot! (Trust us, you’ll need it to dull the pain after getting slammed so hard in the face with all the unacknowledged irony.)
• Iraq to America: Kindly get the fuck out. (We’re paraphrasing, of course.) But if President George W. Bush is so big on democracy, and respecting Democratic governments, why is he still foot-dragging when a democratically elected government is demanding a “very clear timeline” for withdrawal of U.S. forces from Iraq?
• So Francis Allen’s soon-to-be-ex husband is bitching about her alleged “malicious defamation of my character.” He’s probably referring to the flier in which she described his behavior as “unstable, even volatile.” But he admitted under oath that he stabbed himself in the arm during an argument, which is pretty unstable and volatile behavior. So how can Allen’s description of him possibly be either malicious or defamatory? Unless … unless he was lying in court about what really happened?!
• Could somebody please send Las Vegas Councilman Ricki Barlow a copy of the United States Constitution, which he once swore an oath to defend? We think he might need it.
• Quotable: “I think it is wonderful except it just goes to the key areas. You need to go downtown. You need to go where the density of both destination and trip-origination are.” — Actor George Takei, aka Capt. Hikaru Sulu of Star Trek fame, on the Las Vegas Monorail. Now, as the former helmsman of the U.S.S. Enterprise, and later the captain of the U.S.S. Excelsior, we think Takei knows a little something about getting to your destination…
• The story. The unbelievably understated correction (you’ve got to read down to the third one). In other words, an entire story we told you about yesterday is pretty much bullshit, so disregard it. Hey, shouldn’t that be called a “retraction”?
• Quotable: “I think Congress ought to be in session today and not on a book tour around the country. [House Speaker] Nancy Pelosi sent us on vacation.” — U.S. Rep. Jon Porter. A couple things here: First, Porter has taken part in at least some “shadow sessions” of the Republican caucus, speaking to tourists in a darkened chamber. If he really wanted to be in session, why not keep up that protest? Second, where was Republican Minority Leader John Boehner during the initial days of that protest? Golfing, of course!
• How U.S. Sen. Harry Reid took over the Democratic Party in Nevada and turned it into … well, a political party.
• So, let’s do the list of Democrats Who Should Know Better Who Have Caved on Offshore Drilling: State Sen. Dina Titus. U.S. Sen. Barack Obama. Now House Speaker Nancy Pelosi. You know, we think the Republicans have won this one…
• And that’s odd. In any other political climate, Republicans turning themselves in total industry whores by staging fake House sessions and even threatening to shut down the entire government in order to give record-profit making oil companies precisely what they’ve demanded even as voters are paying around $4 per gallon for gasoline would be something of a political loser, no?