Steven Colbert claims the current administration is "soaring, not sinking. They are re-arranging the deck chairs - on the Hindenburg". Today, Porter Goss resigned as Director of the CIA. And today, in 1937, the Hindenburg was destroyed in Lakehurst, New Jersey. Apt.
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Yes it's the speech that has gone around the world via email.
Reality has a well-known liberal bias
I rarely blog about sports, but I'll make an exception for today, given that football history is likely to be made later this afternoon. I'm not much of a football fan, at least not of professional football.
In his weekend roundup, driftglass reminds us that there was a time when our mainstream pop culture villified torture and praised those who attempted to resist it:
(Alternate post title: "Hey to James Nicoll")
Via John Dupuis, our clever neighbors to the North has come up with a possible (partial) alternative to rockets: