Raw Story is reporting the pregnant-with-indictments investigation has something of a flow chart:

For those who’ve been following this weirdness, here’s
the White House statement on Federal Disaster Assistance due to Wilma. 
Note that it’s surprisingly rational, covering the parts of Florida a
sane person would expect.

Compare and contrast with initially declaring only the non-coastal areas of Louisiana during Katrina, and then even more weirdly, the entire state of Texas
for Rita.  (Note, incidentally, that the rest of Louisiana was
included, days later.  Please don’t point to that and pretend it
explains the earlier weirdness.)

When my back’s not killing me, I still really do intend to post a full
review, complete with FEMA’s non-explanation.  This is just a
place-holder for those interested in comparing Wilma.

One more post and I’m horizontal again.

Will be the new reason for slightly infrequent blogging here.  My back popped late Saturday night and so right now I’m moving a bit like an arthritic panda.

No worries; it does this sometimes, and I’ll be fine.  Just saying.  A little slow here.

If you scroll down a bit or just click here, you’ll learn the tale of the Hutia Conga (aka the Hudu), Cuban spymaster of the tiny almost-ungulate world.

The tricky little beastie is so unlikely — seemingly part bunny, part pudu, and part kangaroo — that several emailers actually
claimed I’d been deceived, and that the photo is a composite of
multiple creatures.  Not so; the snapshot is a frame-grab from a Quicktime movie emailed by a reader using the code name "Richard."  In the video, taken in the course of highly-secret activities, you must believe, the Hudu pictured and several
others hop about, masticate, and generally behave in expected bunnyroo
pudurodent fashion.

Adorable, in other words.

But the photo does not, in fact, depict what an authentic Hutia Conga
looks like, found on a Czech server.  (I could show you myself, but I’d be endangering you by doing so.  Oh, you can click if you wish, and learn the Hudu’s secret identity, but all the risks are your own, my friend.  I wash my hands of it.)

Instead, what we see pictured below is a Mara, (aka the
Patagonian Cavy, aka the Mardu).  Here’s another photo of a completely
different Mara, courtesty the Hogle Zoo in Salt Lake City:

So the original post was not, in fact, a Hutia Conga.

It was a Hutia Conga cleverly disguised as a Mara.

No wonder Cuban intelligence thinks they make great spies.

This post, incidentally, will self-destruct.

Not right away.

At what point will we know the White House’s troubles are irreversible?
Any necessary government function shows evidence of long-term planning for the general welfare
163   27.8%
CNN develops special frog-march theme music
160   27.3%
Cheney and Rove hit the escape pods and launch into deep space
158   27%
Bush starts clearing brush in the Situation Room
105   17.9%

This just in: Senator Judd Gregg (R-NH), already a multi-millionaire, just won $853,492 in a Powerball drawing.

Life is SO not fair.

What jumps out at me is that the guy claims that he plays "sporadically," and yet he admits the night he won he played four sheets of tickets.

And then there’s this:

Which is his right, of course.  But, um, let me search for the word: URRRRGH.

What sort of other frustratingly unfair events can we expect?

New poll at left.