Did anybody watch the news clips of Donald Rumsfeld being ambushed by some tough questions from an ex-CIA guy? If I get what Rumsfeld says about the run-up to the war, what he's saying is, in effect, "That stuff we were saying, well, it turned out to be bullshit. But we believed it while we were saying it, cause the CIA told us to, so we really weren't doing anything wrong, which means we're not guilty, which means we were and are right about everything." It's incredible to me that even the ...

Here where I live, in San Francisco, it’s the Great Quake Centennial, so the local stations are giving us a bunch of documentaries about this. It’s amazing, the difference between what happened right after the quake then and now. Back then, the Army and some cohorts were able to quickly put up tent cities in Golden Gate Park, and had sanitation squads scouring the city for potential epidemics. People took charge and did things. Maybe, by today’s standards, shoot all looters is a bit extreme,...

. . . the candidacy of Michael Ducacis? He too tried to run on "competency" as a way of evading the accusation of being a Massachusetts liberal. Now here we go down the same path again. The 66 (or whatever it is) percent of the American public who aren't Bushaholics-in-denial are not down on President Junior for his "incompetence," they're pissed at his mean-spirited stubborn insistence that he's right despite overwhelming evidence to the contrary. Unless the so-called Democratic Party Leade...