Daily Jumble: Nuke-Free Edition

• Now that Fred's announced, does it matter that his "testing the waters" phase skirted FEC campaign rules? "Thompson accomplished his voter involvement activities online without ever explicitly stating that he is running for president or asking for votes. He didn't have to. Instead, the site lets his online supporters do the campaigning for him by networking with each other." [PEJ] And, taking that concept further: "[W]e're asking some bloggers to help us pick good questions from you. The bloggers will solicit your questions, select the best questions and send them to Fred Thompson to answer." Distributed journalism meets distributed campaign. [CQ]

• You heard it there first: " Undocumented Workers: The New Gay." [FDL]

• Experts mock "decrease" in Iraq violence: "If a bullet went through the back of the head, it's sectarian. If it went through the front, it's criminal." [WP]

• Clips from GAO testimony. [Speaker.gov]

• Vanity Fair flashback: "Beneath the inventions of Stephen Glass there is his own story. People try to explain it now by citing the pressure he faced to perform, and it is true that he came from an environment in which there was brutal pressure to excel. Some stress the fact that Glass was working too much. And he was illogically, and even crazily, overextended. More tempting is the idea of seeing each of Glass's articles, each act of manipulative, aggressive trickery, as a grander and more precariously improvised adventure of the mind." [VF]

• Craig resigning after all: "Craig, a three-term Republican, met Wednesday with Idaho Gov. C.L. "Butch" Otter, R, to discuss a transition in which Otter would name his Senate replacement, Whiting said." If only he had a passing acquaintance with "Butch" to begin with... [AP]

• In the future, everyone will get angry at Ron Paul for 15 minutes: