Ben Domenech resigns. A pity. I was looking forward to more discussions of Red Dawn.

The "youngest political appointee in the Bush Administration" (and the son of an appointee himself) was probably not the greatest choice for a historical bastion of journalism like the Washington Post to attach their name to, but you think they would have done some better reference-checking.

This is sort of egg on the fact of the WaPo for a few reasons. One, the bowed to traditional "Liberal Media" hersey and put their brand behind a nakedly partisan contributor to "balance" their journalistic bloggers (like Dan Froomkin) who, whaddya know, investigate and criticize the government. Secondly, they hired a lemon. Thirdly, it took the blogging rabble all of a week to dig up conclusive evidence that this kid is a plagarist.