btw, I’d like to confirm that I was rooting for Lamont over Lieberman not because of the latter’s support for a war which has killed tens of thousands of innocents at a cost of hundreds of billions with the net effect of making us less safe while destroying our international reputation and destabilizing the entire mideast.

I mean, who in their right mind could oppose that?

No, precisely as the White House wants you to think, I was rooting against Lieberman only because I have a suicidal wish to die at the hands of fanatics, whose cause I may even secretly sympathize with, despite any liberal’s deep antipathy toward fundmentalism of every stripe.

In fact, 60% of the American people now have no interest in our security and are willing, nay, eager to die at the hands of terrorists.

So once again, the White House is making perfect sense.

Didn’t see this on the front pages, what with all the Red Alert! happening the very day after it becomes clear that incumbent war supporters will be in grave danger unless the public is re-convinced on the war.

But this fine nugget was squeezed into page A21 in today’s L.A. Times (about one-fifth the size of the adjacent story on teenagers’ cell phone video preferences — this just in!) following up on this story in the Washington Post:

Nice.  You can just smell the democracy on these people.

"I care too much about democracy to respect the outcome of a fair election, and I have too much regard for the people of Connecticut to pay attention to what they actually think."

My friend Val wished at lunch today that Lieberman would have put up one-tenth as much fuss as the VP candidate in the Florida mess of 2000.

"So now I will continue to run against a candidate who has already beaten me, against a party I expect to remain a member of."

Of course, that wasn’t the end of his career, but possibly the beginning, raising the possibility of a presidential run in 2004.  This here, if handled gracefully, would probably be the end.

Ick.

Had to burn a DVD today to get some promo stuff out.  I’d never done that on a computer before.  Pretty simple, or should be, but you know how these things can go.  Everything’s download-a-new-this, update-the-driver-that, and two hours later you’re actually doing something.  If you’re lucky.  And I’d never even launched iDVD, even out of curiosity.  So I wasn’t expecting perfection.

But that’s what I got.  Totally self-explanatory.  Everything worked.  In twenty minutes, I had menus and graphics and music picked out.  Like it’s supposed to be.  Now there’s a DVD burning just beneath my right wrist while I’m typing this, with enough processing power that I can go about the rest of my work and not even notice a delay.  So, wow.  If you’re looking to get a new machine, well, there.

Disclosure: I own a few shares of Apple, so I could arguably be a member of the cult.  Use your own judgment.

Just watch the video.  Trust me.

Via always-fabulous BoingBoing.