• This is heartening: apparently the new Chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff is capable of standing up to Dick Cheney.
  
  
• Comcast is now charging the government for the right to infringe on your privacy. Awesome!
  
  
• The "George W. Bush is a manipulative sack of crap" quote of the day:

  I know some in Congress are against the war, and are seeking ways to demonstrate that opposition. I recognize their position, and they should make their views heard. But they ought to make sure our troops have what it takes to succeed. Our men and women on the front lines should not be caught in the middle of partisan disagreements in Washington, D.C. I often hear that war critics oppose my decisions, but still support the troops. Well, I'll take them at their word -- and this is the chance to show it, that they support the troops.

• Apparently Chris Dodd is smarter than Hillary Clinton or Barack Obama, because he's the first one to figure out that the best way to campaign for president is by actually doing something with the power he has, rather than just talking about what he wishes he could do if he had more power. It drives me nuts to hear all of this hypothetical talk from the front-runners who have essentially abdicated their Senate seats so they can campaign, and the people actually trying to move forward legislation, guys like Dodd and Biden, get made fun of for even being in the race.
  
  
• Alright, Turkey, I'll make a deal with you. If you let us acknowledge the Armenian genocide, we'll give you not just Iraqi Kurdistan, but all of Iraq. It's all yours, we'll be out of there by spring. 'Kay? 'Kay. Have fun!
  
  
• As someone who's currently making his way through the DVD's of the new Battlestar Galactica series, this scares the living crap out of me.
  
  
• News from the White House on the economy front: more than half of America isn't poor. That's . . . that's pathetic and unacceptable is what it is. I think we should be shooting for a better vague statistic than "more than half."
  
  
• I wonder how many vegans will turn against Barack Obama for this.
  
  
• Tom Tancredo asked ICE to raid Dick Durbin's press conference and round up any illegal immigrants there might be floating around. When an organization whose acronym is "ICE" has to reign in your lack of decorum, something might, just might, have gone horribly wrong in your brain.
  
  
• Pennsylvania has an interesting take on voter suppression: don't tell anyone where they need to go to vote.
  
  
• I'll finish tonight with a victory: Pat Leahy and Arlen Specter finally get to see some domestic surveillance documentation.