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  • Gah

    Last night, I caught a bit of the evening news and they were talking about some 51-year-old man who had been arrested for holding up signs threatening PotUS, FLotUS and the moppets (AP). That's lovely. Really. I supp…
  • Other not so state centric

    Things that have interested me. I realize that I'm slightly (okay, a lot) obsessed with the senate, but really? It's mortifying that they're (mis)behaving this way. The surge in violence in Iraq is extremely troublin…
  • Is it really only Tuesday?

    As per a security agreement, US troops pulled out of Iraqi cities today. The day was marked by Iraq as an official holiday. Meanwhile, four US troops were killed in combat in Baghdad yesterday (NYT). What is going…
  • The good, the bad and well, you know

    Early Wednesday morning a car bomb killed four and wounded fifteen in busy downtown area Baghdad. A very little while later (thirty minutes) another bomb went off in a Shiite neighborhood in Baghdad and injured several …
  • Update

    The bodies of Specialist Alex Jimenez and Private Byron Fouty have been found. Jimenez and Byron were two of three soldiers who were abducted during a raid last year. The third, Private Joseph Anzack, Jr. was found in …
  • Sometimes when I listen to NPR

    I think it might be better for my blood pressure if I didn't listen. And my blood pressure is great! Lately? It's mostly because of SCOTUS. Gah. What the heck? Why? And CJ John Roberts. Gah. And seriously, Antho…
  • Some statistics

    Update: I just heard this morning that Staff Sergeant Keith M. Maupin can no longer be listed among the "Missing or Captured". His remains have been identified. Now that it's been five years, they keep replaying al…
  • Ed Stein If you have an extra cell phone lying around (and you want to), you can donate it to give a solider some phone time. Check out the Cell Phones for Soldiers program. You can print out …
  • Ass

    What a ginormous ass Eliot Spitzer is. I'm so annoyed with him. His poor wife. Even more? His poor kids. Not that she deserved such an ass move, but his wife chose to marry the putz, once upon a time. His kids? No…
  • GG

    You know you're headed the wrong way when al Qaeda takes the time to tell you off via video (UPI). Of course the telling off was a little different from the telling off I would give. Ayman al Zawahiri called Palestini…

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