Interesting

Don't get me wrong, I'm glad to see Sadam gone, as are millions of Iraqi's. But it's starting to look like "Wag the Dog" wasn't such a farce after all. I sincerely hope this Web site is a hoax.

The photographs tell the story...

We win!

We came on strong and spanked them. In the words of the great 70s band Queen: "We are the champions..."

Gonna be a rumble tonight

And I'm not talking about Iraq.

Because of a first-place tie, my bowling team faces a bowl-off tonight between Pin Heads and the Lucky Strikes (I'm a Pin-Head) for the IBD league championship. Now I wish I'd bought my own ball.

Last Refuge of a Scoundrel

An excellent editorial by Baltimore City Paper.

In case you haven't gotten it yet, here it is in a nutshell. Criticizing the president is not the same thing as criticizing the troops. Criticizing the president is not the same as criticizing America. And criticizing the president is not "giving aid and comfort to the enemy," which is the classic definition of treason, a federal crime that earns felons the death penalty.

This can't be good.

Major Threat Seen in L.A. Quake Fault

Why does Fox News hate America?

Pentagon Says Geraldo Rivera Will Be Removed From Iraq

"At one point, he actually revealed the time of an attack prior to its occurrence," Lt. Mark Kitchens, a spokesman at Central Command, said yesterday morning. Lieutenant Kitchens added that Mr. Rivera had been escorted to Kuwait.

Navy's floating hospital treats Iraqis

Want federal health care? Join the Iraqi army.

Among the ship’s 62 doctors — mostly Navy physicians from the National Naval Medical Center in Bethesda, Maryland — are two neurosurgeons, a plastic surgeon and a pediatrician. Heart surgery and organ transplants are the only procedures that can’t be performed on board.

Well, what do you know? Diplomacy does matter.

Missteps with Turkey prove costly

Still #1

But barely. We lost two games to tie for 1st, in which the number of total points determines the winner. We have an ever-so-slight lead.

Good news for Andrea, too. She's gotten the Ok from everyone she needs to do the cross-training in editorial. So let's hope she's doing real graphic design soon.

12 U.S. troops presumed captured

12 U.S. troops presumed captured

On CBS’s “Face the Nation,” Rumsfeld said that if those are coalition soldiers being shown on the Al-Jazeera TV footage, “those pictures are a violation of the Geneva Convention.”

If the Iraqi's killed soldiers execution style, then someone's getting tried for war crimes. But as far as showing them on TV, I don't see the difference between an Iraqi state-run TV showing these images, and the U.S. military letting CNN and others show Iraqi POWs yesterday.

Shockingand awesome

Shock and awe, not to be confused with Chaka Kahn, has begun.

Unauthorized Entry - The Bush Doctrine: War without anyone's permission. By Michael Kinsley

Exactly.

War blogging

System note:

It looks like there's been a burst of commenting activity on the YACCS system, so comments may be down for awhile.

I report ... you decide

I hate to admit this -- because I hate Fox News and its smug pretense of balance and fairness -- but they're doing the best war coverage so far.

And I have to admit that it's a little weird watching Internet-quality video on my TV. I hope those videophones everyone's using gets better fast.

Bowling victory

Yes! Three straight wins tonight puts us solidly in 1st place again.

Where's the war we ordered?

It's at least four minutes behind schedule.

This means war

Well, it looks like we're going. Andrea is all freaked out, but I have to admit I enjoy watching round-the-clock war coverage. It reminds me of college, when my roommates and I refused to take the Christmas tree down until the troops came home. That's right, our tree was still up Jan. 16 (or whenever Gulf War I started) and was a fire hazard by the time it came down.

I went to San Jose last weekend and had a really good time in San Francisco. We got caught in the middle of the war protests (though people were also protesting capitalism, heterosexuality, our South Korean military presence and, for some reason, the Gap). Old Navy lowered the metal "night bars" as shoppers watched the protesters from inside. Andrea and were in the middle of things until we wisely decided to go across the street and watch the ordeal from the second story of Virgin Megastore.

Andrea has the OK for cross-training from every person she needs it from except the union leader from editorial. The editorial department, where she'd like to get training, has a different union than the one representing her department, complicating the process. Neither union wants to be the one to pay her salary during the training. God forbid she try to improve her value to the newspaper and fulfill one of the editor's big pushes. I like unions, but I hate hate HATE bureaucracy.

We're No. 2!

My bowling team is back in 2nd place (tied for 2nd, actually) after winning two of tonight's three games.

Yahoo! News - French Fries Get New Name in Congress

Oh, brother.

Weekend on the Coast

I spent the day in Santa Monica, mostly at the Third Street Promenade. I finally got around to reading this month’s Dwell and Wired, both of which were pretty interesting. Dwell focused on affordable but well-designed housing, which, because I am a person of momodest means, piqued my interest.

This weekend I took the plunge and ripped most of my CD collection to the computer. It’s just nice to have all my music in one place and easily accessible (I download a lot of MP3s and subscribe to the legal online music outlet, Pressplay, so this is more of an issue than it sounds). In the process I came to appreciate Microsoft’s Media Player version 9. It automatically creates different folders for each artist and album and even creates an icon of the album cover. This works for ripped, downloaded and subscription music alike. Nice.

My bowling team (yes, I’m in a league) lost our No. 1 ranking last week after loosing three games in a row. In my defense, I was getting over a backache brought on from a game two weeks prior. The rest of my team will have to come up with their own excuses.

Someone here at Barnes and Noble just asked about my laptop. When people are still impressed with your technology six months after you bought it, that’s a good sign you got a cutting-edge device. Now that I can’t buy anything for awhile, we’ll see how long that lasts.

T-Mobile lowered the prices for its Wi-Fi access and got rid of its ridiculous data transfer caps. But still not enough to make the service worthwhile.

OK, I’m going to leave because it’s freezing in here. I dressed for the afternoon high of 73, not this 40-degree night.