A Few Blurbs 

A Few Blurbs

Some drive-by news from the recent past relevant to this
blog:

* My car is still safely in its parking space, unmolested by
tow truck or green sticker. If only the pigeons would be so
kind.

* Rumsfeld said explicitly that there was never any evidence
that Saddam Hussein had anything to do with the September
11th attacks. A poll, however, showed that 75% of Americans
believe that Hussein was involved. But is this disavowal by
Rumsfeld a trick? Because Bush later explained that while
there was no direct connection to September 11th, there was
a connect to Al-Qaeda--the evidence for this, however, is
just as nonexistent. It had something to do with one
individual AQ member being in an Iraqi hospital once, a long
time ago, with Colonel Mustard and a lead pipe. Is this a
case of conceding one ridiculous position to make a second
ridiculous position just a bit more credible?

* There is discussion about extending the hour to which bars
in Boston can stay open, in order to accommodate the
late-running events of the National Democrat
Convention. Well, being a Boston resident and an avid bar
patron, I hope they do stay open later. But I'm at a loss
for a) how this came up in connection with the Convention
and b) how this became important enough to put on the
news. Perhaps that two minutes should have been spent
talking about one of the 200 Democrat presidential
candidates instead.

* MoveOn has begun a campaign to get Rumsfeld out. Sounds
good to me. Use this link to send a supportive letter:
http://www.moveon.org/firerumsfeld/