Tuesday Miscellaneous

Again, in class all week, and it's not real easy to blog...while at home, it looks like Thursday will be the magic day for restoration of my internet service.

Anyway, for an appetizer, Oyster offers some essential reading from the Pic (I think you have to be native--or native enough--to refer to the Pic as "da Paper"). Sample:

What New York has in its plenitude and wealth and Los Angeles pretends to have, New Orleans possesses in fact: the only authentic indigenous urban culture on the continent, the defining soul of a nation sorely in need of one.

Kudos.

Meanwhile, in DC, Bill Frist has his panties all in a knot over Harry Reid forcing the Senate into closed session to discuss national security matters. Crooks & Liars has video for those who like to watch. Then again, it's not like the GOP has shown any sort of affinity towards national security, except as a backdrop for politics--example: Operation Mesopotamian Clusterfuck, Operation Drop Tons of Money into the Pentagon Sinkhole With NO IDEA How it's Being Spent (hint: it ain't going for armor--neither human nor Humvee), Halliburton, etc.

Changing the subject, sort of, it looks like Texass must have special rules for cornered rats: they get some degree of veto power over judges. It'll be interesting to see how this rule gets applied to all defendants equally under the law.

On the Scooter story, Firedoglake pointed to an EJ Dionne op-ed that asks the same question I had yesterday: what if Libby takes the fall, only to get a free pass courtesy of a lame Shrub? Just asking...

And, in this truncated post for All Saints' Day, I'll close with the following observation re: Plamegate...right now, Team Bush is acting an awful lot like they did during the "Mission Accomplished" days back in 2003. In other words, they seem to think the only thing left is mopping up and moving on. However, I have a feeling this is just the beginning, whether or not we're treated to Shrubleroy barking some version of "bring em on."

Back tomorrow.