How can we we ever believe anything they say? How do we know that BushCo isn’t just using these other countries (cough Downing Street Memo cough) to fix the intelligence around the policy?
And who says bombing them is the best way to solve the problem - assuming this is one of those rare times they’re [...]

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“Say Hello, Wave Goodbye,” by David Gray, really captures that post-break “my God, what did I ever see in you?” phase rather neatly:
Standing at the door of the Pink Flamingo crying in the rain
It was a kind of so-so love
And I’m going to make sure it doesn’t happen again
You and I had to be the [...]

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Honestly, this is so tiresome. Here’s a quote from this morning’s WashPo:
Democrats remain far from unified. Prominent party leaders — and a large majority of those in Congress — distance themselves from the effort. They say the very word is a distraction, that talk of impeachment and censure reflect the polarization of politics. Activists spend [...]

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It’s been a very rough week. Cheer me up, why dontcha?
As you know, I’m a Koufax finalist for Best Writing - and voting closes Sunday night. Have you voted for me yet? It’s fine if you don’t think I’m the best writer; at this level, it’s really just a matter of opinion. Just vote for [...]

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I think Congress should resign now. Obviously, they have no function.

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I picked the car up from the station tonight and the anti-lock brake warning light came on. I called the mechanic, he said it wasn’t an emergency, the car might reset itself when I shut it off.
Well, I shut it off. And an hour half-hour later, there’s still an ungodly loud noise emanating from under [...]

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Outta here.

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Josh:
NBC News efforts to marry into the Bush inner circle continues? First Campbell Brown, now Katie Couric?

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Ken Mehlman, then and now:
In light of his recently-revealed connection to the New Hampshire phone-jamming scandal, here’s a fun memo from Ken Mehlman from August 2005 talking about how it is “vitally important that our election system be free from fraud and intimidation.” The RNC Chairman was responding to an American Center for Voting Rights [...]

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Julia speaks, and I say, “How high?”
He’s five feet two and he’s six feet four
He fights with missiles and with spears
He’s all of 31 and he’s only 17
He’s been a soldier for a thousand years
He’s a Catholic, a Hindu, an atheist, a Jain,
a Buddhist and a Baptist and a Jew
and he knows he shouldn’t kill
and [...]

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I saw this story at the BBC site the other day and waited in vain for an American media outlet to pick it up. And somehow, I doubt this would have happened to an Israeli:
Israel’s justice ministry is deciding whether to prosecute a Jerusalem hospital that held a new-born baby for two months as collateral [...]

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What is it about Republicans named Ken? This time, it’s Mehlman.

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It’s Bill Moyers, so of course you have to read the whole thing:
We were not supposed to be a country where the winners take all. The great progressive struggles in our history were waged to make sure ordinary citizens, and not just the rich, share in the benefits of a free society. Today, however, the [...]

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You know, it seems like people just don’t like Republicans anymore. Wonder why?

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Better late than never, I suppose. This indicates just how much the Republican support for Bush is eroding:
Reps. Walter Jones (R), Ron Paul (R), Wayne Gilchrest (R), Neil Abercrombie (D), Ike Skelton (D), and Marty Meehan (D) have issued a “dear colleague” letter announcing that they plan to go to the House floor on April [...]

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Get the popcorn:
Fallen super-lobbyist Jack Abramoff and his former business partner soon will be subpoenaed by defense attorneys to give sworn statements in the Konstantinos “Gus” Boulis murder case.
The attorney for murder suspect Anthony “Big Tony” Moscatiello filed paperwork this week asking to question Abramoff and Long Island businessman Adam Kidan about the SunCruz Casino [...]

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This essay by Miss Molly is timely for me, since I’m going to spend all day tomorrow at University of Penn’s Annenberg Center, locked in a room engaged in discussion with a group of people - journalists, techies, bloggers and assorted others - who are trying to figure out the future of news organizations. (”Norgs,” [...]

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Weasel words from Young Ben:
Late yesterday, the liberal Web sites Daily Kos and Atrios posted examples of what appeared to be instances of plagiarism from Domenech’s writing at the William & Mary student paper. Three sentences of a 1999 Domenech review of a Martin Scorsese film were identical to a review in Salon magazine, and [...]

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Shorter Charles Krauthammer:
I often dress up in a Napoleon costume when nobody’s looking.

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Lovely, chewy essay on morality over at Obsidian Wings (via Fred):
It is hard to understand other people, and the difficulty increases as their experiences become more remote from one’s own. And it is easy to wander around blithely passing judgment on people whom one has not made the slightest effort to understand. Such judgments are [...]

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Fred at Slacktivist (one of my very favorite sites) should hit his millionth visitor today. Help him get there faster! And who knows, it might be you - fame, fortune, fabulous prizes…

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Fast:
Global warming appears to be pushing vast reservoirs of ice on Greenland and Antarctica toward a significant, long-term meltdown. The world may have as little as a decade to take the steps to avoid this scenario.
Those are the implications of new studies that looked to climate history for clues about how the planet’s major [...]

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Via Wolcott, a link to a Fortune profile of Richard Rainwater, big-time investor and close friend of Bubble Boy - and he’s saying some really scary stuff:
“His instincts tell him that another enormous moneymaking opportunity is about to present itself, what he calls a ’slow pitch down the middle.’ But, at 61, wealthier and happier [...]

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Glad to hear this:
BAGHDAD, Iraq (AP) - Three members of a group of Christian peace activists have been released from a hospital, where they were taken after their rescue by U.S. and British forces in Iraq today.
The three had been held hostage for four months. A fourth man, an American, was killed. The body [...]

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What a family:
Former first lady Barbara Bush donated an undisclosed amount of money to the Bush-Clinton Katrina Fund with specific instructions that the money be spent with an educational software company owned by her son Neil.
Since then, the Ignite Learning program has been given to eight area schools that took in substantial numbers of Hurricane [...]

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This just gets funnier and funnier.

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Friends and readers, I officially have a new home. It’s so cool, it’s in a great, funky neighborhood with creative people and my landlady is a musician.
And dear sweet Jesus, there’s a bathtub. (See picture.) Longtime readers know just how much that means to me.

Unfortunately, because of all the upheaval with the previous rental fiasco, [...]

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Looks like there will still be abortions provided in South Dakota - on an Indian reservation:
“When Governor Mike Rounds signed HB 1215 into law it effectively banned all abortions in the state with the exception that it did allow saving the mother’s life. There were, however, no exceptions for victims of rape or incest. His [...]

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Duncan:
I have no idea if Mara Liasson is correct that people get all upset when those reporters actually ask the preznit hard questions, but what I do know is that such considerations should not even enter the picture. It’s not a popularity contest between the preznit and the press.

What I think is, the media has [...]

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Roses for Helen Thomas.

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