A few weekend thoughts while we have a brief break in the monsoon – more coming early next week.

Gotta love this. OK, so in the face of a terrorist attack on the United States – the White House’s words, not mine – the Commander-in-Chief was dealing with his deep-rooted grief by high-fiving it on the golf course with his buds. As Noah Rothman so ably observes in his Hot Air post:

“When you see somebody killed in such a horrific way, that represents a terrorist attack,” he said. “That represents a terrorist attack against our country and against an American citizen.”

“We see that as an attack on our country when one of our own is killed like that,” Rhodes added.

So, now the president was not just callously golfing in the wake of the horrific murder of an American citizen, he was golfing in the immediate aftermath of a “terrorist attack” on the United States of America. Oops.

Yep, Clint Eastwood was right.

I’m kinda intrigued by the Red Sox signing Cuban outfielder Rusney Castillo to play center field for them the next several years. And it ought to be interesting to see what this does as far as their planned pursuit of the Florida Marlins OF Giancarlo Stanton during the offseason goes. I will say this, they now have a heckuva lot of top-notch minor-league talent they can throw at teams to reel in a top-notch pitcher or an outfielder like Stanton. 2014 is a lost season, but watching how the Red Sox are looking come Opening Day 2015 should be pretty interesting to watch as the snow is flying.

Headline: Colorado Hiker Sings Opera to Calm Stalking Mountain Lion. I wonder what would happen if I started singing to the cat that frequents our yard? Beach Boys? Gordon Lightfoot? Jimmy Buffett? Who knows. But back to that story, Glen Reynolds of Instapundit is right: something in .454 Casull might have worked, too. That’s the gun I’m planning on once I get my permit to carry.

How do you know you have a top-notch political organization behind you? By turning lemons not just into lemonade, but into pure gold. I ordered my Rick Perry T-shirt today, have you ordered yours?