This actually is kind of interesting- PJ Media interviewed Joe Lieberman.
And before the catcalls start about me bowing to my corporate masters, I like the way things have evolved at PJ as far as the design.
Open Thread
Open Thread
For anything other than gloating about the Steelers’ loss. There is a thread for that already.
* Progress in Iraq? This comment at Kevin Drum’s provides a handy resource.
* Don’t eat fresh spinach. Like most agricultural E. coli outbreaks this one will eventually be traced to poop getting in the food stream. Which spinach grower is using uncertified fertilizer? We will find out soon. It is also worth pointing out that much of America’s cheap produce comes from countries which use human waste in agriculture on a routine basis.
* Fast feet.
* Pakistan releases all of its Taliban/al Qaeda detainees, including the killers of Nicholas Berg. This deserves a post of its own but that will wait until I see the story picked up by a source whose credibility I can verify.
* Creationism abroad. We already knew that stupid is contagious…
* Willie Nelson busted. For what? Guess.
Open Thread
* George Allen holds an ethnic rally, but not the kind that you’re thinking of.
* John Yoo thinks that the American Constitution only works when there isn’t anybody shooting at Americans anywhere in the world. I hear that happens all the time.
* Hewlett Packard really stepped in it with privacy violations.
* I didn’t watch the ABC movie. Apparently neither did a lot of people.
* Speaking of ABC’s mendacious mockumentary, at least two lawsuits (note the word ‘defames’) seem possible.
* Write the ultimate blog post.
Remembering 9/11
So I turned on the news this morning, and MSNBC is replaying 9/11 as it happened.
Instead of being easier to watch, it isn’t. In fact, it might be worse. Not only do I have to deal with the horrors of that day, but I am also thinking about all the petty squabbles, the divisions, the fighting- the nonsense, basically, that has gone on since then. How many lives were ruined. How many fathers and mothers killed that day and since then. What a terrible chain of events it set off- leading to the mess in Iraq, in large part.
Just a depressing day, all around.
And as I type this, Tunch is walking a little figure eight between my legs, rubbing up against me and chirping, letting me know he wants food or water or attention or all three. I didn’t get Tunch until Fall of 2002, so I guess everything isn’t so bad after all.
*** Update ***
Osama bin Laden was mentioned for the first time at 11:07 am, which leads to two thoughts:
1.) I was surprised how early in the day this was brought up- just a few hours after the attack. I didn’t remember that happening so early. It does reinforce the concept that thi country was unprepared to deal with terrorism, if we knew he was a threat prior to the attack but did nothing or littleto nothing anyway.
2.) The speed that his name was brought up could, in large part, help to fuel conspiracy theories that this was a government plot and Osama was the fall guy. One of the recurring themes re: the Kennedy assassination was that the speed Lee Harvey Oswald wss named as the assassin indictaes that the act was a pre-planned coup.
Open Thread
We haven’t had one in a while.
New Dishwasher
I got a new dishwasher yesterday. I had been washing my dishes by hand for 2 years, and I just wanted to say that now that I have a dishwasher, only insane people wash their dishes by hand.
That is all.
*** Update ***
FYI- a funny anecdote. As an undergrad many years ago, in a drunken stupor I came home and put all the clothes I had been wearing in the dishwasher and blew up some component because my jeans got wrapped around the agitator thing at the bottom. True story.
I guess I thought it was the washing machine. I also recently lost my cell phone and found it in the freezer. Unfortunately I was sober when I did that.