Here is your daily link mess. Don’t know what ‘link mess’ is? Well, scroll down:

Doug Ross reports that the most horrible thing happened in Sillicon Valley: the Internet was cut off. Brr, the thought alone makes me sick to my stomach.

Meanwhile, Megan McArdle points out that Bernie Madoff isn’t the only ‘financial fraud crook’ in America. ‘Dreier is more like the classic con man of legend, stage and screen:  an amoral, audacious rapscallion who pulls off a massive fraud mostly because  no one can believe anyone would do anything so crazy,’ she writes. Read the whole thing.

Mary Katharine Ham, who is not only beautiful but also a brillian writer, published her last “HamNation.” In it, ‘Ham, with the help of her favorite songwriter, explores life under the new rules and politics of an Obama administration that’s in all your business.’

A new hate crime law is coming up: it introduces the new hate crime of… violence against the homeless? Robert Stacey McCain has more.

Liberal Salon-blogger Glenn Greenwald has a beef with President Obama: ‘The Obama DOJ is now squarely to the Right of an extremely conservative, pro-executive-power, Bush 43-appointed judge on issues of executive power and due-process-less detentions.” Greenwald is especially angry because Obama took the opposite position when he was running for president last year. Read his post. It’s a good one. Yes, really. Just ignore the BDS.

It seems that Pakistan and Britain don’t like each other no mo’. Ed Morrissey reports for Hot Air that ‘As the UK scrambled to find a bomb factory run by a cell of radical Islamist terrorists, people wondered how the 12 identified conspirators managed to get into the country in the first place. British authorities first pointed the finger at Pakistan, but Islamabad rejected that notion. Their representative in London accused British authorities of refusing to cooperate on background checks for the visas.’ As Ed writes: ‘Either way, this shows that AQ remains dangerous, and that it doesn’t take more than a few terrorists to create a great deal of havoc.  The UK managed to avoid an attack at the moment, but they may have more on the way.’

The DC voucher program has been destroyed. Jennifer Rubin has a great post up at Commentary’s Contentions explaining why this is sad, even terrible, news.

Mark Halperin summarizes Obama’s latest Weekly Address as follows: “Obama to the World: Let’s Work Together.” “These are challenges that no single nation, no matter how powerful, can confront alone,” Obama says in the address. Perhaps not, and certainly a good sentiment (the US cannot go it alone, but please tell me what you got in return for your apology-tour in Europe? Troops? Nope. Stimulus plans? Of course not. What then?

The Vatican has blocked the appointment of Caroline Kennedy as US ambassador, the always brilliant Moe Lane reports.He adds: “You would think that after the Vatican made it so clear that Kmiec was unacceptable that he never even made it on the list the White House would take the hint and find a pro-life Democratic Catholic for the job; apparently not.” It seems clear to me that the Obama administration simply did not get the message… or purposefully ignored it. It should be clear to anyone with half a brain that the Vatican will not accept a pro-abortion US ambassador. It’s just not going to happen. Now, you can find that frustrating, wrong, and what not, but that’s reality. Instead of giving the Church the impression its opinions do not matter, the Obama administration is wise to treat it as it treats enemies of the United States: with respect and understanding.

Patrick Ruffini has the headline of the day (because it’s so true): “Traditional Media is So Screwed.” Damn right. Wonder why? Read the post.

Obama has a minor problem. He still has to hire hundreds of people. Lack of talent, lack of priorities, lack of… no one knows. Read all about it at the Huffington Post.

And lastly, Mark Thompson explains at League of Ordinary Gentlemen why being a judge is hard. Bookmark that blog, by the way. It’s fantastic.