Ouch, three whole days...
I do apologize. Planetarium has been starting a new job this week, which hath kept us from our multivarious Internet duties. So, a quick recap for those of you who are jonesin' for some inside scoops:
There is a box of Golden Grahams right next to the keyboard this is being typed on, and near the side of the cover, it reads "The irresistable taste of Golden Grahams has everyone after your box!".
Apparently, the Matrix: Revolutions is way better than the last one, which I interpret to mean that, at the very least, it doesn't totally suck.
Today The looking glass hoists Tom Friedman, very deservedly, by his own petard:
A few weeks ago, Tom Friedman was mocking the French for proposing "some kind of loopy symbolic transfer of Iraqi sovereignty to some kind of hastily thrown together Iraqi provisional government" -- a proposal that they could only be advancing, he claimed, because it was doomed to failure, and failure was what they wanted to see. Today, he makes his own proposal:There is much talk now about the need for "Iraqification" of the police and armed forces, so Iraqis can take over for U.S. troops. No question, this is necessary. But it's not sufficient. We could have 100,000 Iraqis in the police and Army and it would not be enough — without one other person. We need an Iraqi leader (or a leadership council) elected as a result of an Iraqi constitutional or political process. ...
This should be our drop-everything priority.Which is, of course, very different. It was not proposed by the French.
Another lovely media blast comes courtesy of Atrios:
David Corn describes an recent encounter with Ann Coulter on Hardball where, true to form, Ann was making shit up. The show concluded with Matthews saying, "Facts mean nothing to you, Ann." As Corn notes, "If so, why continue to have her on?"
The country is still being led straight to hell by Bush et. al.
The new Neal Stephenson book is pretty good so far.
The Vets played a great show last night.
What more do you want?