Eight year old Trudy for President!!

Oh, wow, today sucks. Will one of you come bring me some liquor?

stuffs Fernet down the Interpipes

One of the things I love Andrew Sullivan for is his ongoing focus on torture committed by the US military at the direction of the Bush White House.

The Media Yawns

And Greenwald fumes:

Just ponder the uproar if, in any other country, the political parties joined together and issued a report documenting that the country's President and highest aides were directly responsible for war crimes and widespread detainee abuse and death. Compare the inevitable reaction to such an event if it happened in another country to what happens in the U.S. when such an event occurs -- a virtual media blackout, ongoing fixations by political journalists with petty scandals, and an undisturbed consensus that, no matter what else is true, high-level American political figures (as opposed to powerless low-level functionaries) must never be held accountable for their crimes.

The MSM also made torture possible - especially cable news. Even PBS demanded that guests not use the word torture to decribe torture. The issue was barely present in the last campagn; and Bush has not been asked about his war crimes in any single exit interview so far. The AP and the NYT and the WaPo collude in robbing the English language of its plain meaning. This is not to bely that amazing work that many MSM reporters have done - from Dana Priest and Jane Mayer to Scott Horton and Charlie Savage. But so many of their editors seem unable to tell the truth about this country's war crimes in the past seven years.

Eight year old Trudy for President!!

Nah, no one would be able to have a beer with me.

Al-Zaidi charged for throwing shoes in presence of Maliki, not for aiming at Bush.

Heh.

Timelies all!

The d20 catnip toy would fit in with the other odd catnip toys around here.(Including a fried egg, a burrito and a piece of sushi)

Owen just nearly started a fire. They were playing in the dining room and he took off his shirt and threw it over the chandelier. He came to ask my help in getting it down and when I got there, the cloth was smoking and *this* close to flames. Yikes.

One more thing to worry about: Zzz-mail: What happens when sleepwalkers go online

Doctors have reported the first ever case of someone using the internet while asleep, after a sleeping woman sent emails to people asking them over for drinks and caviar.

It was only when a would-be guest phoned the next day to accept, that she found out what she had done.

The 44-year-old woman, whose case is reported by researchers from the University of Toledo in the latest edition of medical journal Sleep Medicine, had gone to bed at around 10pm, but got up two hours later and walked to the next room.

She then turned on the computer, connected to the internet, and logged on by typing her username and password to her email account. She then composed and sent three emails.

Each was in a random mix of upper and lower cases, not well formatted and written in strange language.

One read: "Come tomorrow and sort this hell hole out. Dinner and drinks, 4.pm,. Bring wine and caviar only."

Another said simply, "What the……."

Yikes, indeed!!

Zombies are much less dangerous. Just ask the people at the Millenium Park skating rink this weekend! According to that article, the zombies were better behaved than the 200 drunk Santas that showed up on Saturday.

Heh--Two Lumps is having fun with the Twelve Days of Christmas.

First Day

Second Day

Third Day