Tom Delay recently explained that there was a “big difference” between his adultery and Gingrich’s, while they were both on the attack against Clinton;

“I was no longer committing adultery by that time, the impeachment trial. There’s a big difference… Also, I had returned to Christ and repented my sins by that time.”

I see.

My initial reaction was a ten-cent give me a break, but Mo Rocca was kind enough to explain it to me.
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Reuters is reporting that Bush “would like to see a lengthy U.S. troop presence in Iraq like the one in South Korea to provide stability.”

To which I’d respond - Sir, when was the last time a Korean - North or South - fired on a US soldier? Are you guys serious? Do you really, honestly think there is any similarity whatsoever?

This seems like a perfect place for another quote I saw today. Lawrence Wilkerson [Colin Powell's former chief of staff] said,

“This is the most colossally inept and incompetent administration in American history.”

Source: Congressional Quarterly (A very telling article, BTW.)

Love makes the world go ’round, it’s true, but lust stops the world in its tracks; love renders bearable the passage of time, lust causes time to stand still; lust kills time, which is not to say that it wastes it or whiles it aimlessly away but rather it annihilates it, cancels it, extirpates it from the continuum; preventing, while it lasts, any lapse into the tense and shabby woes of temporal society; lust is the thousand-pound odometer needle on the dashboard of the absolute.

- Tom Robbins

I have a hunch that this lil’ island could make things verry interesting for Americans in the not-too-distant future.

Start date: October 18, 2006
Terminus: April 1, 2007

Miles (total): ~19,750
Miles (air): ~11,600
Miles (train): ~2,378
Miles (auto): ~5,772
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Ok all - stuff I owe all of you and that I’m thinking about (in part due to your reminders/requests:)

- Article on death / euthanasia
- Celebrity sightings (for you Hollywood-worshipping slut cultists out there)
- Trip statistics (almost done)
- Hot babe analysis across the trip
- Favorite ’small cities’

Watch this space; pieces will move soon, I swear. Maybe even a couple this weekend.

An intriguing read - apparently Cheney “fears that the President is taking diplomacy with Iran too seriously” and senior intelligence officials believe the veep may be engaged in “potentially criminal insubordination”. Clancy could not do any better.

But they were “just guessing”, were they, sir?

And, a bonus impeachment link:

The Case for Impeachment: The Legal Argument for Removing President George W. Bush from Office

Terry Moran, ABC News: “You must have been furious, at that time - but you didn’t choose to speak out about the [2000] Supreme Court decision.”

Gore (laughing): “Well, you know, there’s no intermediate step between a final Supreme Court decision and violent revolution…”

Alright, folks, I am calling for the impeachment of the President. I’ve danced around it, cognizant of the appetite Americans have for such a trial after what we went through with President Clinton.

But lo, how this is different. This is not some lame civil case, not some jizz-stain on a Lane Bryant dress. If only. No - our republic is threatened and our system is being gravely damaged and it’s our job to do something about it.
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The stunning and dramatic testimony of James Comey has a lot of people asking the easy questions. I understand why - the hard questions are very unpleasant.
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Over the last couple of years, I’ve felt Chris Matthews shriveling. I still admire him and respect him. I mean, relative to the ridiculous wink-nudge softball practiced by his colleagues such as Tim Russert, he’s still a strong political journalist. But he’s faded over the years - he’s become gentler, sipping up guests’ talking points, playing kiss-up, and generally disappointing those of us who are outraged at the media’s willingness to let officials repeat the same two-cent brain-candy soundbites without challenge. Over the years he’s seemed to have fallen into the beltway journalist trap.

But tonight I saw the old Chris Matthews, and I liked it.

[H/T CrooksAndLiars.com]

I stumbled across the special Price Is Right show tonight - legendary Bob Barker’s last show. I used to watch it as a kid, and it amazes me that he is still shuffling around that stage giving people cheesy luggage and the occasional Chevy.
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Trey Parker and Matt Stone, creators of South Park, produced this cool little clip based on a segment of an Alan Watts speech. Kinda cool, as it is a blend of two things I enjoy that I never thought I’d see together. I want more!

Today, Tenet, in his media tour of shirking responsibility and creating his own history, told Chris Matthews that one of the things we really need to do is hunt down and account for all the fissile material. In the same breath, he speaks of “generational challenge.”
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Most of us assume that when we visit someone’s online photo album, or send along images to our friends, that we’re all pretty much seeing the same image. We could all be forgiven for not thinking too much about color levels, white point, and other visual ingredients that are fairly key to the experience. Well, the truth is, it varies enormously.
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