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Thursday, July 21, 2005

The racoon on my portch

According to the good folks at Lindsey Wildlife Museum he's about the age for Mama Racoon to have decided that he was getting a little annoying and he should go out and get himself a job. He's apparently not fully committed to that idea yet, so he's taken up temporary residence on my front porch. Sophie the dog is ecstatic; the cats, not so much. Anyway, I'm giving him a couple of days to catch up on his sleep, get a little hungry, and decide to move on. Ah, nature.

posted by jeev | 6:37 PM |

In case you were wondering why the Roberts' nomination popped up just this minute:

Bush accelerated his search for a Supreme Court nominee in part because of special prosecutor Patrick Fitzgerald's investigation into the leak of a CIA agent's name, according to Republicans familiar with administration strategy.

Bush originally had planned to announce a replacement for retiring Justice Sandra Day O'Connor on July 26 or 27, just before his planned July 28 departure for a month-long vacation at his Crawford, Texas, ranch, said two administration officials, who spoke on the condition they not be named.

The officials said those plans changed because Rove has become a focus of Fitzgerald's interest and of news accounts about the matter.

Spin, spin, spin.

posted by jeev | 11:08 AM |

Wednesday, July 20, 2005

Thirty-six years ago, today:

Neil Armstrong walks on the moon

And from Google. Be sure to zoom all the way in.

posted by jeev | 9:26 AM |

Sunday, July 17, 2005

I wasn't particularly fond of Frank Rich when he was a movie and then a theater critic for the NYTimes. But as an OpEd guy, I think Rich has found his calling. Re: the Rove mess, for instance.

This case is about Iraq, not Niger. The real victims are the American people, not the Wilsons. The real culprit - the big enchilada, to borrow a 1973 John Ehrlichman phrase from the Nixon tapes - is not Mr. Rove but the gang that sent American sons and daughters to war on trumped-up grounds and in so doing diverted finite resources, human and otherwise, from fighting the terrorists who attacked us on 9/11. That's why the stakes are so high: this scandal is about the unmasking of an ill-conceived war, not the unmasking of a C.I.A. operative who posed for Vanity Fair.

posted by jeev | 7:30 PM |