Always one in the crowd...

James Taranto:

There was a weird moment last night even before the attorney general collapsed.

A man at a table near ours stood up, early in the speech, and shouted, "Tyrant! You are a tyrant!"

He would have been right, too, if the definition of tyrant were "a government official who will leave office in two months as part of a peaceful transition of power after a lawful, regularly scheduled election."

Michael Mukasey continued with his speech. He appeared to us unruffled, although Kathryn Lopez thought he "seemed rattled." Perhaps he was shaken but not stirred. The heckler sat down, and a bit later we looked over and noticed he was gone.