Some things are so far beyond idiotic that the media dare not speak its name - lest Obama sink even lower in the polls

Law Enforcement is the theme of this week's essay. I know that it's hard for non-lawyers to comprehend the nuanced and complicated issues which face the Attorney General and his aides, so I'm taking time this week to do just that.

Before I do so, however, there are two under-reported idiocies that bear special mention.

In the July-August edition of the Atlantic, which is still showcasing insanity per A. Sullivan, the magazine has a special "big ideas" section in which, as Kenneth Anderson explained on the Fourth of July, ABC's chief foreign affairs correspondent, Martha Raddatz, suggests that drone warfare is too impersonal, that our forces have a PlayStation mentality, and worse, that our troops aren't investing enough of their own blood.

Traditionally, when a nation went to war, it had to invest its blood and treasure, but today's joystick-wielding drone pilots can launch a missile strike from here at home, then hop in the minivan to meet the wife and kids for dinner. War couldn't get any more impersonal.

Kenneth Anderson at Volokh Conspiracy says Raddatz is six months behind the rest of the "international advocacy" crowd, which has recognized how repulsive that argument is, and has backpedaled from it. He is grateful to her for showing us her unvarnished biases, though.

Charles Bolden, NASA administrator, uttered my second-favorite idiocy of the week. He claimed that his job as head of the space agency is to improve relations with the Muslim world.

"When I became the NASA administrator -- or before I became the NASA administrator -- he charged me with three things. One was he wanted me to help re-inspire children to want to get into science and math, he wanted me to expand our international relationships, and third, and perhaps foremost, he wanted me to find a way to reach out to the Muslim world and engage much more with dominantly Muslim nations to help them feel good about their historic contribution to science ... and math and engineering," Bolden said in the interview.

I might suggest to Bolden and his boss that if you want to inspire children to get into science and math, get us back into space. If you want to expand our international relationships, do what NASA once did -- be a shining example of American creativity and ingenuity. If you want to make the Muslim nations feel good, find another job, because it is preposterous to link it to yours.

Charles Krauthammer didn't think much of Bolden's remarks, either.

"This is a new height in fatuousness ... NASA was established to get America into space and to keep us there. This idea to feel good about their past and to make achievements is the worst combination of group therapy, psychobabble, imperial condescension and adolescent diplomacy."

In any event, it's clear that the major media considered this blather something that would not help Bolden or Obama and refused to report it. In other words, if NASA falls from space into a Muslim feel-good program and the voters don't know that, did that really happen?

At the Washington Examiner's Beltway Confidential blog (HT Instapundit), Byron York documents the results of some Lexis Nexis searching:

•Total words about the NASA Muslim outreach program in the New York Times: 0.

•Total words about the NASA Muslim outreach program in the Washington Post: 0.

•Total words about the NASA Muslim outreach program on NBC Nightly News: 0.

•Total words about the NASA Muslim outreach program on ABC World News: 0.

•Total words about the NASA Muslim outreach program on CBS Evening News: 0.