The Right Climate

Finally NASA is starting to make some sense on global warming, in the form of administrator Michael Griffin:

"I have no doubt that a trend of global warming exists," Griffin told Inskeep. "I am not sure that it is fair to say that it is a problem we must wrestle with."

"To assume that it is a problem is to assume that the state of Earth's climate today is the optimal climate, the best climate that we could have or ever have had and that we need to take steps to make sure that it doesn't change," Griffin said. "I guess I would ask which human beings — where and when — are to be accorded the privilege of deciding that this particular climate that we have right here today, right now is the best climate for all other human beings. I think that's a rather arrogant position for people to take."

Stifled NASA scientist James Hansen, stifles:

"It's an incredibly arrogant and ignorant statement," Hansen told ABC News. "It indicates a complete ignorance of understanding the implications of climate change."

I think Griffin raises a good question actually. What exactly is the "right" climate?

It's a question Hansen seems uninterested in answering.

Boys Allowed to be Boys Again?

I expect I'll be running out to pick this book up for GD4 sometime in the next few months:

"The Dangerous Book for Boys" is all about Swiss Army knives, compasses, tying knots and starting fires with a magnifying glass. It includes adventure stories with male heroes, vivid descriptions of battles and a history of artillery. Readers learn how to make their own magnets, periscopes and bows and arrows. It gives rules and tactics for poker and marbles - and secret moves for coin tricks.

In a radical departure from modern schoolroom readings, the book has almost nothing to say about feelings, relationships or how boys can learn to cry. It valorizes risk, adventure and manliness.

Could it be that the now long standing tradition of treating boys as something flawed and in need of repair is over?

Ottawa Sleepers

HR obviously has a hockey chubby over the Ducks taking a 2-0 lead in the Stanley Cup finals. Which, of course, just means they'll have further to fall when Ottawa finally WAKES UP AND STARTS PLAYING SOME HOCKEY!!!

Let's hope it's soon.

Why Aren't They?

Via Tim Blair, Tony Blair gets around to asking a good question:

I was stopped by someone the other week who said it was not surprising there was so much terrorism in the world when we invaded their countries (meaning Afghanistan and Iraq). No wonder Muslims felt angry.

I said to him: tell me exactly what they feel angry about. We remove two utterly brutal and dictatorial regimes; we replace them with a UN-supervised democratic process.

And the only reason it is difficult still is because other Muslims are using terrorism to try to destroy the fledgling democracy and, in doing so, are killing fellow Muslims.

Why aren't they angry about the people doing the killing?

Torturing Truth

Almost purely by luck, and helped mightily by the home crowd (and probably performance enhancing drugs), the Ducks managed to hang on to a 3-2 win to take a 1-0 lead in the series. Hockey Rube escapes inevitable ridicule for at least a couple more days.

I would like to address a point he made about me in the comment section earlier:

...here is a little secret. HE ONLY WATCHES THE PLAYOFFS!!!!

That statement should read: "He actually watches the playoffs!!!!" I, unlike Hockey Rube, have actually put time and energy into the unfolding drama. What's that HR? You don't get "Versus" down there in that Florida swamp? Awww.

I understand that if HR's daughter holds the rabbit ears over her head while standing on her right foot, he can get NBC - although it's quite fuzzy. It sounds like he might be able to prop up his two feet - only one slipper - after all, and watch a game or two later in the series.

Until then, stay tuned for an upcoming explanation of "icing," which should help HR understand why a whistle blows when the "hockey men" touch the "little black thing" with those "L-shaped poles."

It's Understandable

Floridian and Duck lover, Hockey Rube, e-mails:

im a little confused

Okay. When the offensive team crosses the opposing team's blue line before the puck, that's called offsides. The puck must cross the blue line in advance of the offense. Sometimes, offsides can be delayed if the offsides player(s) returns to the neutral zone before the team legally re-enters the zone.

Does that help?

All is Grim at AP

Just in time for Memorial Day, the AP resurrects the "grim milestone:"

Americans have opened nearly 1,000 new graves to bury U.S. troops killed in Iraq since Memorial Day a year ago. The figure is telling - and expected to rise in coming months.

This is interesting. The AP acknowledges that the strategy has changed significantly, if only to point out that the changes have left us more "vulnerable:"

Thousands more American soldiers are patrolling the streets and living in isolated outposts across Baghdad, leaving them more vulnerable to attack. He (Michael O'Hanlon) also said the increase in raids on extremist Shiite militiamen had brought a wave of retaliatory attacks.

Jules Crittendon notes the absence of any AP reference to "grim" milestones in Afghanistan. It's as if there isn't even a war happening there. Crittendon also puts some context to the AP's endless body counts:

In case you care, Terrorist Death Watch’s tally of officially announced terrorists offed by U.S. forces in Iraq since June 1 last year is 1,578. I suspect that number is conservative. The Associated Press remains noticeably disinterested in that number. In addition to that, there are hundreds, maybe thousands, of terrorism suspects taken prisoner. There are car bomb factories and Iranian weapons smuggling operations that were shut down. There are people who have come forward with information. There are Iraqi units that have come on line, combat effective, playing a growing role in operations.

Since Memorial Day last year, we’ve seen Anbar turn, we’ve seen Sunni-Shiite reconciliation become popular enough that Moqtada al-Sadr is now trying to get in front of it. We’ve seen businesses reopen and people return to their homes in Baghdad. We’ve seen Shiite militias aggressively engaged and Sunni insurgents on the run. We’ve seen the number of sectarian murders drop. Those facts typically get buried when they are mentioned at all, unless there’s an uptick in death, when they suddenly become news again, to be cited as evidence of failure. AP prefers its milestones grim.

We have seen a backlash in the face of these advances, as our enemies attempt to undermine the surge strategy. The enemy, unhappy with the surge, has responded with a car-bomb campaign. This has been a great relief to the Associated Press and others who would like to see us lose in Iraq. Each car bomb has been savored by the Associated Press, like every American death, another sign of hopelessness to cling to.

Read it all.

It's a Shame

ABC and Disney endorsed Rosie O'Donnell has left The View. A heartbreaker I know, but true nonetheless. No more calling American troops the arm of a terrorist state, 911 truther rants, or claims that steel is not known to melt.

After an altercation with Elisabeth Hasselbeck on set, in which Hasselbeck had the temerity to challenge the nonsense that regularily spews from Rosie's maw, Rosie walked out on the show.

In true leftie form, she couldn't do so without a couple of final acts of inspired civil disobedience:

...Rosie's chief writer, Janette Barber, was allegedly escorted from the building after she was caught drawing moustaches on photographs of Hasselbeck that hang in the "View" studios.

The Post's Adam Buckman reports ABC confirmed in a statement only that "photographs at 'The View's' offices were defaced. Rosie O'Donnell was not in the building. ABC Legal and Human Resources are investigating the matter." Barber is an old friend of O'Donnell who worked with her years ago on "The Rosie O'Donnell Show."

There were also rumors O'Donnell was so angry after her argument with Hasselbeck that she trashed her dressing room, although ABC denied the tantrum.

When all is said and done, Rosie goes out a simple vandal. How fitting.

Sheesh. Florida Hockey Fans

All due respect to this hockey rube (I mean seriously, how much can you possibly know much about hockey when you live in Florida), anyone who would root for a southern California team over one from God's country is likely the kind of person that sleeps until noon and has "Lowrider" as his ring tone.

Justice demands an Ottawa victory, and the Elder (a hockey picking savant) concurs:

It's bad enough that the Lightning and Hurricanes have recently had their names engraved on the hallowed trophy. If the team with the gayest (in the playground sense of the word) name in all of sport--Mighty (cringe) Ducks--wins the Cup, Lord Stanley will be spinning in his grave.

While Hockey Rube may have been right about the surreptitious back door removal of the "Mighty" from "Mighty Ducks" that only proves how gay (think playground) the team really is. After all, in order to remove the "Mighty," they first had to add the "Mighty." Scarier still, Hockey Rube seems aware of this chain of events, which means he pays far too much attention to a hockey team...from southern California.

Supporting the Ducks means supporting the use of, and then sneaky removal of, the descriptive "Mighty." Maybe he thinks we should put Emilio Estevez' name on the cup too. Or, adopt the "flying v" as a legitimate break in.

In my opinion, Hockey Rube is rooting for (and maybe even playing for) the wrong team.

Bravo Katherine

Once again, while the Strib and Nick Coleman are busy stuffing their agenda down the throats of readers, it falls on columnist Katherine Kersten to do the actual reporting. This time it is in defense of U.S. Attorney Rachel Paulose, who has been characterized as a bible-thumping, unqualified, partisan Bushie appointee. Kersten points out that nothing could be further from the truth:

The first thing to get clear is that Paulose is a legal superstar. She graduated from Yale Law School and has worked at two of the nation's most prestigious law firms, as well as the U.S. Justice Department. The U.S. Senate unanimously confirmed her to her current position.

Paulose also had experience as a federal prosecutor before she became U.S. attorney here. From 1999 to 2002, she worked as an assistant U.S. attorney for Minnesota in both the civil and criminal divisions.

In contrast, recent highly regarded U.S. attorneys such as David Lillehaug and James Rosenbaum (who was 36 when he was appointed) had no federal prosecutorial experience when they started the job. In fact, only two of the five U.S. attorneys who preceded Paulose had federal prosecutorial experience.

And Paulose's age? Fourteen individuals under 35 have been nominated to serve as U.S. attorneys during the Clinton and Bush administrations, according to the Office of Public Affairs of the U.S. Department of Justice. The youngest was 29. Robert Kennedy was 35 when he became attorney general of the United States.

If Paulose is a Republican hack out to pervert justice, why are many prominent Democrats among her most ardent supporters?

Read on to hear ringing endorsements for Paulose from Democrats who find her non-political, extraordinarily qualified, inherently fair and driven by the law. The post would be too long if I listed them all.

For her part, Kersten has a theory as to the character assassination that has followed Paulose since her appointment:

She's young, female, a "person of color" and an immigrant. (Her grandfather came here from India with $7 in his pocket in the 1960s, she has said, and the rest of the family followed.) If she were a political liberal -- as such people are expected to be -- she would be the toast of the town. But she's not. In some folks' view, such renegades must be run out of the public arena quickly before other minority folks get similar uppity, independent ideas.

"Such folks" such as Nick Coleman I presume, who said Paulose's only qualifications were:

1) A member of the conservative Federalist Society and 2) A friend of Monica Goodling, a deeply religious aide to Attorney General Alberto Gonzales.

If anyone's saw Coleman's pointless FOx 9 "commentary" about his gas card and how its $50 limit isn't enough to fill his gas tank anymore, one might wonder over his qualifications. Clearly he didn't bother to interview anyone who knew Paulose. That's work. Angry, bitter, talking points are so much easier and have so much more appeal for his fan base.

Insolence

Robert Tracinski hammers the Goracle and his new book, "The Assault on Reason:"

...respect for reason requires the subordination of coercion to persuasion through the strict limitation of government power. A respect for reason requires a commitment to liberty above all else.

Al Gore stands for the exact opposite. His environmentalist crusade is dedicated to the suppression of the material products of the human mind--our advanced industry and technology. And now, in his new book, he is promoting a rationalization for the suppression of free political debate.

To do this while billing himself as a defender of reason is an act of supreme insolence.

All in a day's work for Al.

One Last Go Round

Well, there you have it. The Mighty Ducks versus the Senators.

I'll be rooting for the Senators, but the Ducks will be hard to beat. Pronger, the Neidermayers, Selanne, McDonald, Getzlaff... It's a hell of a line-up.

Man I hope the Sens beat 'em. Cross your fingers.

Unleash the Dogs

For the first time ever, police are using protesters bathing habits against them:

German authorities are using scent tracking to keep tabs on possibly violent protesters against next month's Group of Eight summit - a tactic that is drawing comparisons with the methods of former East Germany's secret police.

Scent samples have been taken from an undisclosed number of people believed to be a possible danger to the upcoming summit so that police dogs can pick out the perpetrators if there is violence, the Hamburger Morgenpost reported Tuesday.

What a conundrum. Preserve the eau de dreadlock, or shower and waste Mother's precious resources.

Nancy Gets People Arrested

Via LGF, Nancy Pelosi's ill advised, and maybe felonious, trip to Syria has had very negative consequences:

Many Syrian dissidents and pro-democracy activists have privately expressed dismay at Ms. Pelosi’s message of friendship to the government of Syrian President Bashar al-Assad. They say that Ms. Pelosi’s visit, no matter how well-intentioned, has effectively pulled the rug out from under them, critically damaging their efforts to create momentum for reform from within.

Let the arrests begin:

In the eastern Syrian town of Raqqa, hundreds of people were arrested for protesting rigged parliamentary elections. And over the last month, the Syrian courts have embarked on a veritable spree of sentencing, handing down harsh prison sentences to some of Syria’s most prominent pro-democracy activists.

Last week, the physician and dissident Kamal Labwani was sentenced to 12 years in prison for having met with American officials during a 2005 trip to Washington. This past weekend, the activists Michel Kilo and Mahmoud Issa were sentenced to three years each for having signed the so-called Damascus Declaration, a document petitioning Syria’s government to normalize relations with neighboring Lebanon.

The few Syrian activists who are not presently behind bars say they have all but ceased working.

She makes the bed, others lie in it. Way to sharpen that image abroad Nancy.

Previous posts: Nancy Leads, Nancy Stumbles Badly, Nancy Breaks the Law

Talk, Talk

This week's Upsider, which was called "degrading to women" and "chauvinist" by at least one reader.

Age Hits the Memory

Former president Jimmy Carter retracted his statement that the Bush administration is the worst in history after he suddenly realized he had completely forgotten about his own.

Five Years to the End

Environmentalist group paints doomsday scenario:

The World Wide Fund for Nature (WWF) warns governments have until 2012 to "plant the seeds of change" and make positive moves to limit carbon emissions.

If they fail to do so, the WWF's Vision For 2050 warns "generations to come will have to live with the compromises and hardships caused by their inability to act".

"We have a small window of time in which we can plant the seeds of change, and that is the next five years," James Leape, from the WWF, said.

Meterologist says "not so much" and adds details:

"We're all going to survive this. It's all going to be a joke in five years," he said.

The good news is that we won't have to talk about in five short years. It will either be too late or a punchline. Either way, a reason to long for May 20, 2012.

In other warming news: Back in February, we asked where the energy from Gore Aid would come from. Add Roger Daltrey to the list who think a global rock concert is not only not the solution, but will add to the problem:

"Bo***cks to that! The last thing the planet needs is a rock concert. I can't believe it. Let's burn even more fuel."

Then again, there might be someone, somewhere, unaware of the global climate warming change issue. Won't it all be worth it if guilt and fear can make that person buy flourescent lightbulbs?

Priceless

Iowahawk does a parody of Lileks:

“Why do sewers cost money?”

“Because someone has to build and maintain them,” I explained.

I also wanted to explain to her how the sewers of St. Paul were once grand structures, the subterranean toast of the upper Midwest, designed by Frank Lloyd Wright’s lesser known brother Dave. Like his prickly brother the “Maestro,” Dave Lloyd Wright could be a prima donna but there is no denying the man knew how to craft a sewer.

What's Old is New

Fitting that Greenpeace is building an ark on the very spot where the ark landed, since they sound so much like Noah and everything:

"Climate change is real, it's happening now and unless world leaders take urgent, decisive and far-reaching action, the next decades will see human misery on a scale not experienced in modern times," said Greenpeace activist Hilal Atici.

History does indeed repeat itself. First, bell-bottoms return, now this.

Lawyering Up

Silly me. I forgot to post the May 2 Upsider, in which I work hard to make more friends.

Working Together

Via LGF, progressives of all stripes gathered in Toronto this weekend for the "Festival of Resistance." Building unity was the theme:

Rather than focus on the evils of capitalism, the unlikely top billing of the opening night of the festival was devoted to a discussion about building unity between Muslims and the left...

It must be one of those "enemy of thine enemy..." things.

Cabbies Outraged

Cabbie Ali Mohamed on MAC's stiffer penalties for refusing to transport fares carrying alcohol:

"They are creating a hostile environment."

Mekonnen Doyamo:

"It's excessive punishment ... The new rules ruin our life totally."

It's My Party...

It turns out Democrats aren't that concerned about the "culture of corruption" after all:

Now that they are running things, many Democrats want to keep the big campaign donations and lavish parties that lobbyists put together for them. They're also having second thoughts about having to wait an extra year before they can become high-paid lobbyists themselves should they retire or be defeated at the polls.

The growing resistance to several proposed reforms now threatens passage of a bill that once seemed on track to fulfill Democrats' campaign promise of cleaner fundraising and lobbying practices.

All that campaign bluster now looks more like jealousy than outrage. They just wanted a bigger piece of the pie.

Feelings Without a Dogma

Jonah Goldberg's column explores the attraction of radical Islam for disaffected westerners and sees a similarity to dogma of yesteryear:

Of course, not everybody follows the John Walker Lindh route and actually converts to Islam, just as not every Black Panther supporter became a bank robber. But who can deny that this post-colonial, anti-imperialism, indigenous-peoples-and-the-suburban-revolutionaries-who-love-them-unite! stuff is in many respects just a magnet for the same riffraff and rabble rouses of yesteryear?

Sure, there’s much to fear in Jihadism. But there’s also something deeply pathetic about it, too. And that’s worth pointing out.

BDS Goes Dental

Roughly half of the dental students at Indiana University School of Dentistry are accused of cheating. There have been expulsions, suspensions, and reprimands. A lengthy investigation concluded that students got an early look at an internet test.

Via Dan Reihl, there is really only one person who could be responsible for such reprehensible behavior:

Dr. Anne Koerber, associate professor of dentistry at the University of Illinois at Chicago, an expert in dental education ...: "When you have persons in high places who clearly lie about what's happening with weapons of mass destruction... I think the general public gets the idea that anything that makes money is what's right.

Koerber takes non sequitur to a whole new level. She actually stacks non sequitur on top of non sequitur.

Incredible.

Say Something

At hand once again is the time of year when I become responsible for the soccer fortunes of over a dozen budding players. Last night the girls had their first game and rallied from a 2-0 deficit to earn the tie.

An interesting anomaly. These girls chatter through practice, warm-ups, and meetings. Talk, talk, talk, all the time. But the ref blows the whistle and they act like they are in church. I spend half my time trying to get 11-year-old girls to talk to each other more. I must be doing something wrong.

If Everyone Drove an SUV

Der Spiegel has a must read on the unknowns of global warming science. Just how far are we from actually knowing anything? We still don't know if pollution is a good thing or a bad thing:

In the early years, for example, computer modelers underestimated the influence of aerosols, especially the sulfur particles that are released into the atmosphere during the combustion of oil and coal or during volcanic eruptions. These pollution particles block sunlight and thus cause significant cooling. The failure to adequately take aerosols into account explains why earlier models predicted a more drastic rise in temperatures than those in use today. One major unknown in the predictions depends on how quickly countries like China will filter out the pollutants from their power plant emissions -- if the air becomes cleaner it will also heat up more rapidly.

Short of nuking the sun, pollution may be all that can save us. It's not too late to dig those incandescent light bulbs out of the trash. Do it...for the children.

Myopic History

Reihl World View is looking at the lefty blogs reaction to Rep. Ted Poe quoting Confederate cavalry general Nathan Bedford Forrest:

To make a point, the Texas Republican invoked the words of Civil War Confederate Gen. Nathan Bedford Forrest: “Git thar fustest with the mostest.”

Incidentally, that is a misquote of "Get there first with the most men."

Of course, Forrest's post civil war affiliations with the KKK are what is getting the attention, and the fact that a Republican quoted such an individual. (Never mind the Democratic Party has a much more recent member serving in the Senate right now.)

Forrest also happens to be one of the, if not the, greatest cavalry officer in American history. The quote in question is perhaps his most famous and is absolutely true. It's only common sense that the force that arrives first, and therefore can choose advantageous ground, and brings the most to the table, will have a distinct advantage. That Forrest went on to belong to the KKK does not detract from that truth one iota.

Using the quote is not an endorsement of the KKK, it is an endorsement of sound military strategy.

Duh.

UPDATE: Here's a link to the original lefty post. Funny. Here's my favorite comment from the thread:

This jerk and his disgusting vulgarity should be censured. What’s next? “President” Bush quoting Hitler?

I thought Bush was Hitler.

Just for shits and giggles, here's some links to said lefty quoting or defending Senator Robert Byrd, who, as we all know, was also a member of the KKK. Which all makes this sentence all the more hilarious:

Do Republicans just not care about the company they keep?

Skills Unappreciated

News from The Bleat:

As it happens, they've killed my column, and assigned me to write straight local news stories.

Really.

Lileks writing straight news? Kind of like Superman doing traffic patrol.

France Wakes Up

Sarkozy wins!

The final count gave Mr Sarkozy 53.06%, compared with 46.94% for socialist Segolene Royal, with turnout at 85%.

Lefties throw things...

RIOT police fired tear gas at stone-throwing protesters gathered in central Paris today to demonstrate against the presidential election victory of right-winger Nicolas Sarkozy.

...And hang banners:

...a giant yellow banner was unfurled in the centre of Paris last week, bearing portraits of Lenin and Stalin. “Only socialism can save the world” it proclaimed in black ink.

If only we had some historical context in which to place claims of socialist utopia. Speaking of context, here's some from Paul Mirengoff:

The U.S. has now seen the leadership of both France and Germany pass to figures who believe, as a general matter, that American power is a force for good in the world, and not something that needs persistently to be constrained. Let's hope that in 2009 the U.S. still has a leader who concurs.

I don't know. It seems socialism and self flagellation is something that has to be experienced before it is discarded. Let's hope America is the exception to that rule.

Project Isolation

MoveOn grows ever more adamant that Democrats follow its war strategy:

"...if Democrats appear to capitulate to Bush — passing a bill without measures to end the war — the unity Democrats have enjoyed and Democratic leadership has so expertly built, will immediately disappear.”

Oops. Did I say war strategy?

The antiwar coalition combines the online mobilization capabilities of MoveOn with the old-school political muscle of organized labor. They have been working in tandem with Democratic leadership in both the House and the Senate on a systematic strategy to unify Democrats, divide Republicans and isolate the president.

And you thought this was about Iraq.

When France Isn't France

The latest polls have Nicolas Sarkozy significantly out in front of Segolene Royal in French presidential election polls.

Royal's campaign has gone to great pains to characterize Sarkozy as a "neo-con" who will kneel "in front of George Bush," but it isn't working. Sarkozy's critics have even branded him "the American."

The horror.

When France has had enough of socialist America haters, can America be far behind?

Polar Mutiny

More evidence that polar bears refuse to go quietly into that warm night:

...global warming is not killing the polar bears of Canada's eastern Arctic, according to one ongoing study. Scheduled for release next year, it says the number of polar bears in the Davis Strait area of Canada's eastern Arctic – one of 19 polar bear populations worldwide – has grown to 2,100, up from 850 in the mid-1980s.

"There aren't just a few more bears. There are a ... lot more bears," biologist Mitchell Taylor told the Nunatsiaq News of Iqaluit in the Arctic territory of Nunavut.

Damn bears. Don't they know what is at stake?

Farts in a Hurricane

Alexander Cockburn, writing in The Nation, is the latest to draw the parallels between global warming and religion:

There is still zero empirical evidence that anthropogenic production of carbon dioxide is making any measurable contribution to the world's present warming trend. The greenhouse fearmongers rely on unverified, crudely oversimplified models to finger mankind's sinful contribution--and carbon trafficking, just like the old indulgences, is powered by guilt, credulity, cynicism and greed.

And introduces us to Martin Hertzberg, PhD:

As Hertzberg says, water in the form of oceans, snow, ice cover, clouds and vapor "is overwhelming in the radiative and energy balance between the Earth and the sun.... Carbon dioxide and the greenhouse gases are, by comparison, the equivalent of a few farts in a hurricane." And water is exactly that component of the Earth's heat balance that the global warming computer models fail to account for.

..."The greenhouse global warming theory has it ass backwards," Hertzberg concludes. "It is the warming of the Earth that is causing the increase of carbon dioxide and not the reverse." In vivid confirmation of that conclusion, several new papers show that for the last 750,000 years, CO₂ changes have always lagged behind global temperatures by 800 to 2,600 years.

In other words (if you subscribe to the notion that CO2 is a pollutant), the earth is polluting itself. Therefore, the only way to stop rising CO2 levels is to nuke the sun.

Stop Pretending

A message to the troops left at DailyKos, in response to Bush's veto of the surrender bill:

Sorry, we tried. Your commander is a f***ing asshole. It's up to you now. Drop the bravado bullshit, forget your sense of honor for the well being of your peers and speak up! Tell the press, your commanders, your families, your friends what you think - not what you think you should think. That's real bravery.

We can't help you if you pretend you don't want our help - your leader is insane, but you don't have to act that way too!

You hear that troops? Stop thinking. 'Cuz you're not really thinking, you just think you're thinking. When you agree that "your leader is insane," then you'll be thinking. And bravely too, I might add.

Defeatist

Dan Riehl is now declaring the war lost based on the numbers of Americans killed, and is calling for a complete pullout from Florida.

The Pull

What are you doing here? Don't you know that somewhere, out there right now, a Stanley Cup playoff hockey game is taking place? It beckons.

Do you hear it?

UPDATE: I don't care what anybody says. Daniel Briere's stuff attempt, against the Rangers with 16 seconds left in the third, was a goal. In the game of hockey that is a goal.

It's not up on YouTube yet, but it will be. If anyone gets a link throw it in comments.