He who makes the rules wins the game

What a surprise. It looks like George Bush's Iraqi intellegence commission will be a total whitewash.

More on the oh-so impartial Antonin Scalia

Scalia Was Cheney Hunt Trip Guest; Ethics Concern Grows

Supreme Court Justice Antonin Scalia traveled as an official guest of Vice President Dick Cheney on a small government jet that served as Air Force Two when the pair came here last month to hunt ducks.

The revelation cast further doubts about whether Scalia can be an impartial judge in Cheney's upcoming case before the Supreme Court, legal ethics experts said. The hunting trip took place just weeks after the high court agreed to take up Cheney's bid to keep secret the details of his energy policy task force.

Not good.

MSNBC - Mad cow's 'downer' status disputed

This could be a problem for Kerry in the general election

Green light for gay marriages in Mass.

At the least, it puts him in a tough spot. Edwards' "state's rights" approach might be a little easier for moderates to tolerate.

Nice, he even gets to pick the panel members

Bush to pick panel for WMD inquiry

A senior administration official said Monday that Bush will name the members of the commission. The official said the president had consulted some "appropriate" members of Congress about the appointments.

That way, he can make sure there won't be any conflicts of interest.

In other news, Richard Nixon will create a panel to investigate Watergate.

Capoeira

To force ourselves to get more exercise, Andrea and I took a Capoeira class today and will probably start going regularly. Capoeira is a Brazilian martial art, but unlike Karate, invloves no actual fighting. It's more like gymnastics, really. Apparently, you're supposed to dance until your attacker leaves.

I thought I was going to die for the first half of the class and had to sit down to rest. So apparently, it's working.

Bush tries to pass the buck

MSNBC - Bush to order inquiry of Iraq intelligence lapses: "By setting up the investigation himself, Bush will have greater control over its membership and mandate. The senior White House official said it would be patterned after the Warren Commission, so named for its chairman Earl Warren, a former chief justice of the Supreme Court, which led a 10-month investigation that concluded in 1964 that Lee Harvey Oswald acted alone in killing President John F. Kennedy."