Priorities

• Today's best headline: "Gingrich: Iraq part of larger, poorly fought war."
  
• I feel like I should be more impressed that Led Zeppelin are doing a live show again.
• Brent Hinds of Mastodon is in the hospital an incident (which may or may not have been a "brutal assault") at MTV's Video Music Awards. By all accounts, Brent is a really nice guy and I'll personally bear witness to him being serious rock and roller, and I wish him the best of luck recuperating. Despite this bad news, I would like to take a moment to mention that there is still hope for the world: MTV let Mastodon play on the VMA's.
• Speaking of hope, the Petraeus strategy isn't our only one: The Pentagon is drafting an alternative proposal which calls for bringing home 2/3 of the troops in Iraq ASAP.
  
• Some people actually have their priorities straight: A guy gets robbed at gunpoint and the burglars take all of his pot. The cops go after the burglars and not the guy with the pot.
• More people watched the Spanish-language presidential debate than typically watch the English ones. I'm not sure if this says something about political apathy amongst the English-speaking community, a sense of political duty in the Spanish-speaking community, or the need for a candidate who isn't going to go on a deportation binge. Part of me suspects that the GOP hasn't scheduled a similar debate because they don't want to explain to 4.6 million potential voters their policy that immigrants are criminals, a blight on our economy, and may very likely be terrorists.
• Iraqis hate the American occupation, but want us to stay where we are so they don't all get murdered in their sleep. I understand the paradox, as I support the withdrawal of American troops but dread the abominable upswing in violence in Iraq when we do.
• Nancy Pelosi snaps at a member of the press for failing to lob her a softball question, then refuses to answer it. Procedural obstacles aside, it's hard to feel anything less than disappointed in her and in Harry Reid.