Has anyone actually seen Doug Feith lately? I envision him holed up in a basement office in the Library of Congress, extracting particular phrases from the Founding Fathers to be reworked and then stovepiped (via pneumatic tube) directly onto Cheney's desk.

Excerpt from the MY FAVORITE THINGS section of Condi Rice's personal web page:

"Long morning walks through Baghdad's heavily-fortified Green Zone, strolling arm in arm with Sen. John "Neverland" McCain as we celebrate the birth pangs of a new Middle East."

The path to clean up racism in media leads straight to Rush's command post in sunny south Florida. Racism, Republicanism, and Right-Wing Media go together like drunken white frat boys, Confederate flags, and African-American strippers. Thus the panicked attempt to deflect the whole mess onto rap music and imply that Imus's "free speech" was violated during a wild party with the liberals of Rutgers women's basketball team.

You're really not going to post anything concerning Paul "Iraq is a country that can really finance its own reconstruction and relatively soon" Wolfowitz's financing of his tawdry sex life with (quite a lot of) World Bank funds? Granted, the list of Gop scandals is growing so long that we practically need an index just to keep up; but damn, I was especially looking forward to the peals of laughter over the public fall of yet another Gop chickenhawk.

Talking points are passionately being massaged at this very moment which will reveal the woman (codename: Softball)'s intimate connections to the Peacock Throne; and that she is a fine asset who has shaped a body of hard intelligence on Iran's big nuclear missiles (a fantasy, it turns out). She has been tapped to play a key role in Uncle Sam's domination of post-war Iran; and, until liberal media tools exposed her plan and left her naked to the world, her undercover tale of financial intercourse between nations was a thinly-veiled prophylactic to head off any criticism concerning the birth pangs of a new Middle East.

Which leaves us with the following questions: Did she serve at Wolfowitz's pleasure? and, Has this story got legs?

Perhaps she served at the pleasure of Paul Wolfowitz AND at the pleasure of Condi Rice -- maybe even at the pleasure of both at the same time. No wonder she feels victimized.

Dear Fellow Readers, the thrust of your respective arguments ends in the strong point, well-received, that on this the day after one or more heathen sinners, after 4 years of probing, finally succeeded in penetrating through the unviolated gate guarding the soft underbelly of the sultry Green Zone, we ought not let ourselves become aroused over what might have been just a trifle, a mere affair of the heart, lest we all be licked and licked good when the orgy of violence in the lush valley of the Tigris reaches its climax.

Whereas, I disagree. I submit that these affairs are intimately related; and I say the heart of the matter is that while we know this young daughter of Persia served under Wolfowitz, we have yet to learn at whose pleasure she served. While he lavished money on her and pumped her for the status of Iran's nuclear program, did she serve solely at his pleasure? Or did she also serve at the pleasure of Condi Rice? Or did she serve under and/or at the pleasure of both Rice and Wolfowitz, perhaps at the same time? We simply must know.

A poignant instance of an airport named for a national hero is Ninoy Aquino International in Manila. Benigno Aquino, a political opponent of Ferdinand Marcos, was assassinated on the tarmac there in 1983, after descending the staircase of an Air China flight from the U.S. via Taipei and upon setting foot in his homeland after spending several years in exile.

A small measure of justice was obtained a few years later when the Marcoses were forced by the People Power Revolution to fly to the U.S. (Imelda's shoes stayed behind); Aquino's widow, Cory, became the free Philippines' first president; and Manila's international airport was renamed for her late husband.

China Air Lines. Not "Air China". Brain lapse. Dui bu qi, Taiwan!

Da Ali G Show, Season 1, Disk 1 on DVD: in Episode 2 thereof, a priest explains to "Ali G" that Catholics believe Jesus Christ "is the second part of a triune god."

As far as what the neo-fascist meant by a "triune poster," the only thing I can imagine is that the link in question had three parts (salon.opinion.greenwald) thus any good Bushie inclined to follow it would at least see he or she was going to Salon and not unexpectedly finding themselves transported to a "hate site". Otherwise, I've no idea what was meant.

Apropos of absolutely nothing (I guess as a reward for reading this far), it FINALLY dawned on me what Katie Couric's nightly sign-off should be at the CBS Evening News:

In your best Seinfeldian inner voice, imagine her each night sighing: "THAT's a shame."