A friend of mine asked, in passing, what would be on John McCain's iPod these days, so I thought I'd just ask the community here.

I don't know if I've posted this here before or not, but the anniversary of the great flight deck adventure and "Mission Acclompished*" calls me to resurrect this ditty.

Sing along in the key of G (for "Gee, I wish we were shut of this twerp!")

• I still think that would make a good bumper-sticker. It highlights the incompetence in a (perhaps too-) subtle way.

The newly-announced "confessions" of Kalid Sheik Mohammed show that imprisonment at Guantanimo works! I mean, whatever technique they used on him (waterboarding? isolation? sleep deprivation? all of the above?) has him singing like a bird, confessing to everything under the sun.

The two Republican concessions today, of all things, were (are you ready for it?)

I am, as most people here are, disgusted with Holy Joe (the rules are for other people) Lieberman. Whatever his other qualities, his appeasement and enabling attitude toward those who have crippled this country for political gain disqualify him from consideration for the US Senate.

It's that simple.

And I say the same thing, in rhyme, after the jump.

I noted in this morning's Washington Post this comment from George Will (emphasis added):

"Within a decade the New York and Washington metropolitan regions will join the Miami, Houston, Los Angeles and San Francisco regions in having majorities made up of minorities, partly because immigrants have higher birthrates than whites. Since 2000, births, not immigration, have been the largest source of growth of America's Latino population."

Latinos aren't white? As in, Caucasian? What are they? Red? Green? They certainly aren't African or Asian.

I wake up to NPR every morning -- it's better than an alarm clock, and the weather and traffic reports are nice to have. I actually like the content, because the pieces are more thorough than you'd get on an all-news station (not to mention no commercials).

But every once in a while I hear something that just hits my "what the hell did they just say?" button, and this morning was another. They had a professor on who was talking about Feingold's censure measure and presidential rights vs. Constitutional authority.

Here's what he said at one point (paraphrased):

Listening to "Morning Edition" this morning, I was amazed to hear Maura Liasson remark, after a Republican remark about Democrats not wanting terrorists to be wiretapped, "This is not true." I almost fell over to hear it, and just went to the NPR website to find it.

NPR seems to have regained a sense of balance, to judge by what they've been reporting of late. Here's an example.

I was reading POGOblog (Project on Government Oversight -- pogoblog.typepad.com) and ran across this oddity.

Libby Leaked Plame's Name to Oklahoma Indie Rock Band

File this one under bizarre, but POGO pal LC was listening to the Starlight Mints, an Oklahoma band often compared to the Flaming Lips, and noticed that Track 5 of one of their CDs is titled, "Valerie Flames."  

I wonder if any of the folks who wrote "Valerie Flame" may have heard this album, and subliminally substituted "Flame" for "Plame?"

Naahh... life may be strange, but that's ridiculous!

Ed