Hmm.. Well there's laziness and then there's laziness.

The truly lazy man puts a lot of effort into figuring out the easiest way of doing things. Think of Tom Sawyer getting other kids to pay to whitewash the fence. Tom was a truly lazy man..

So laziness doesn't always lead to ignorance, sometimes it can lead to understanding.

Tell that to General Petraeus. He seems to have gotten excellent instruction from somewhere, if not from FM 22-5.

Christopher Hitchens was interviewed on Australian TV last night and he said McCain is a serious man and should be president of any where. Here’s the quote from http://www.abc.net.au/lateline/content/2007/s2197841.htm:

"TONY JONES: Have you reach add point yet where you're even considering a vote for John McCain?

CHRISTOPHER HITCHENS: Um, I would consider it, yes. I mean, he's a serious man, and a man with a lot of character and actually a lot of charm. The sort of person that I would prefer to say this there should be more of in the senate. I'm not sure that a guy like that is volatile shall we say and should be president of any where."

I believe you may have read Hitchens statement incorrectly, although he certainly could have phrased it better.

I believe he meant to say - I'm not sure that a guy, like (in the California Valley Girl sense), that volatile (shall we say) should be president of anywhere.

IOW, he thinks that McCain, although likeable, etc., is too volatile to be president.

Personally, I think that's one of the reasons Lieberman and Graham have been shadowing McCain around for the last month or so (longer in Graham's case). They're there to quell the first inkling of McCain "going off" message.

Lieberman because he likes to tweek Democrat noses, and Graham, because he's a fucking jerk who likes to be seen with powerful people.

Regards,

LWM Mooser

In 2004, the Catholic Bishops issued statements saying that a real Catholic could not vote for someone who had voted in favor of abortion rights, meaning John Kerry, because they must consider their faith in all acts in their lives.

John McCain is divorced and re-married. Don't the same Bishops now have to denounce voting for him by the same logic? How hard would it be to mount an email and phone campaign to remind them to make the statement?

Keith Olbermann tonight said that Fox's Brit Hume in excusing McSame's al-Qaeda training in Iran mistake said that Hume left viewers with three choices: MCSame is a dope, a liar, or a potential president who has senior moments.

I really believe it will be like shooting ducks when we get to the GE for either Hillary or Barack. But Barack would kill a lot quicker and more often during any debates.

Mooses, they just rut. Its sort of sad, really. Anyway, at this point, I'm so famisht romance is out of the question! I hardly even know who I am, or who my wife is anymore.

And of course, buckyl, who annihilated my existence with a few keystrokes continues blithely, without so much as a by-your-leave. Let alone an apology. Oh hell, they'll probably stop the War On Iraq before that happens.

It's obvious that media people who directly interface with McCain on at least a semi-regular basis like the guy. He yaps with them frequently, takes their questions, and responds "on the record."

How many presidential candidates or senators, for that matter, conduct themselves that way with the press? So I can understand how, on a personal level, media people can be seduced by McCain's relative openness and apparent candor.

Of course, this does not mean that the press should therefore stipulate to the veracity or wisdom of whatever spews out of the guy's mouth, which I don't think they do. They do treat him nicer than they treat most interviewees, but that's because he treats them nicer than do most big-shot pols.

The McCain Terrorism "gaffes" become a more sensitive issue for the press to tackle because of McCain's age. His remarks indicate confusion on a subject that he has indeed been deeply involved in--for better or worse--for a long time. And the cause behind the mistakes he repeatedly made last week can only be one of three:

1. He's lying;

2. He's ignorant; or,

3. He's confused.

My best guess is that the answer is number 3, and that's why he needs handlers like Lieberman and the other guy within whisper shot at all times.

As Mr. Coward used to sing. "This sweet Memory, across the years, will come to me. Tho' my life may go a'wry, in my heart you'll ever lie, Just the Echo of a Sigh, Goodbye.

Off I go to bed, meditating on Blogging and identity. This whole sock-puppet thing makes me feel like I've been cleaved in twain. It's terrible, all my suits were made for a whole person!

Oh well, one must, as Anotole says, take some smooths with the rough.

And I must to bed, where my ever-unsatisfied (Gosh that Shooter's a perceptive fellow) wife awaits.

I can hear her sliding a clip into that little pearl-handled Beretta .25 she loves so much, (the very same gun!) and that means it's time for bed at Moosehall.

Good nite LWM, wherever and whoever you are. Someday, karma will repay you for whatever hoo-doo voodoo (that you do so well) you used to screw up Buckyl. My God forgive you, cause I can't. I've seen the wreck of a noble mind here oe'rthrown, and its got right in amongst me.

I don't know how you did it, LWM, but you might as well have hit him square in the temple with a sledge hammer, from what I've seen tonite.

Do you have the same fate in store for me, LWM. Please, don't make me end up like that, LWM, please. I'll do anything, but whatever you did to Buckyl, don't do it to me. It's devastating. You've turned his mind into a rutabaga!

Last fire before spring.

To liberate such energy, the years trapped in circles. If only my cremation smelled so sweet. If I could bring light and heat. The scent that jerks the city out of bed puts the country to sleep. So many differences making so little difference.

My axe now sleeps with winter clothes and I long for summer dresses and detente with the trees. Mostly summer dresses. And shade. And passion. It is going to be a hot summer.

I want to sleep underneath the Weeping Willow as it cries all night quietly.

Its tears all around me.

I'll sleep there so soundly until I'm allowed finally to wake and be happy again.

To wake and be happy again.