Over at A Tiny Revolution, Jon has not one but two good catches, the result of his being able (unlike most people who discuss politics) to read:

Turns out the CIA’s spokesman published a novel centered on the use of airplanes as terrorist missiles aimed at large public buildings, years in advance of the WTC attacks.

Also, it would be nice if any Bushies disparaging the "reality-based" were aware they were actually mirroring one of the fundamental worries of the intelligence community — about Stalinist Russia.

Enjoy.

Over at A Tiny Revolution, Jon has not one but two good catches, the result of his being able (unlike most people who discuss politics) to read:

Turns out the CIA’s spokesman published a novel centered on the use of airplanes as terrorist missiles aimed at large public buildings, years in advance of the WTC attacks.

Also, it would be nice if any Bushies disparaging the "reality-based" were aware they were actually mirroring one of the fundamental worries of the intelligence community — about Stalinist Russia.

Enjoy.

You can only hope to contain him.  At least for two more shows here in L.A.

I’d also like to direct any locals looking for a theatrical adventure to Big News, a live-theater news review revue that’s as new each week as the soul-peeling national horrors they make fun of.  Like all such highwire exercises, it can be hit or miss, but when it hits, it’s funny as hell.

Last night’s recurring bit was "Barbara Bush’s Silver Linings," in which the First Mother (who in this version had a beard) mused on the bright side of famine, disease, and genocide.  Which was as dead-on and darkly amusing as it sounds.

Really has to include FSMism.

FSM heaven, in case you’re still a heathen, has both a stripper factory AND a beer volcano.

And lest we forget the purpose of national make-George-Bush-look-less-like-Nero Day, here’s the link for the Red Cross again.

Actual Reuters photo and caption, via First Draft via Atrios:

U.S. President George W. Bush writes a note to Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice during a Security Council meeting at the 2005 World Summit and 60th General Assembly of the United Nations in New York September 14, 2005. World leaders are exploring ways to revitalize the United Nations at a summit on Wednesday but their blueprint falls short of Secretary-General Kofi Annan’s vision of freedom from want, persecution and war.

If you look closely, here’s Bush’s note to his Secretary of State while the entire world is trying to figure out how to make the United Nations work:

I did a little contrast work in Photoshop, but you can compare to the original with your own eyes.

The most powerful man in the world, and he’s not even sure if he’s allowed to pee.