Richard Brooks probably sets a new low for many aspects of columny: insight, narrowness of view, consistency, and, in my mind, basic fairness of analysis.

Here's what Tony Blair said in a speech at the Lord Mayor's banquet:

Another one of those vacuous Presidential Proclamations slipped by me last week.  Now we have an official week for "National Character Counts."

Finally, praise for a piece of ordinary journalism, which managed to identify and explain the built-in contradiction in President Bush's comments about what Vietnam means for Iraq.

I assure you nothing that has happened in the last two weeks will change his [President Bush's] commitment to nominating first-rate talent like John Roberts and Sam Alito.

[Added to Senator Mitch McConnell's assertion that Republican cooperation with Democrats in the next Congress os predicated on giving "the president's judicial nominees an up-or-down vote" in this lame duck congress, this pretty much amounts to a declared strategy of demonizing the Democrats for the next presidential election]

Okay, you're disgusted that federal secrecy seems to be growing faster than the mold on your civil rights.  But how, pray tell, to describe the problem, to quantify the phenomenon so that others may see the problem?

Speaking of health care cons, try this out for size:  more and more Americans are traveling abroad to have expensive surgical procedures done, because the cost is far lower even with the travel costs added in.

Even I was amazed at this, and perhaps, US Airways get the Watching The Watchers Chutzpah Award for 2006, with their hostile attempt at buying up Delta.....

The government computes two measures of "poverty" for various purposes.  The main one is the "poverty threshold" which is the measure to which we refer when we talk about whether more or less people are in pverty today than at some prior time.

Cute and snarky all at the same time, but what else does one expect from the crime family, of course? Former Prez Bush, the Chimpster's papa recently lashed out at we bloggers...

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