The Nation blogger Katrina Vanden Heuvel posted a much more eloquent version of my last post that's certainly worth a gander.

In other news, drinking with a USMC sniper on leave from Iraq last night was a really good departure from my absolute reliance on all new sources that cite failure in Iraq, simply because I like to blame it on Bush. It's really important to keep a balanced view so that the things that he deserves to be blamed for (and there's surely no shortage) aren't diminished by frivolous bitching.

I bought a desk today (picture below of it hard at work) at Lounge Lizard. I'm realizing that either I'm not very good at handling high-pressure situations when caught off-guard, or the lady that works there is an absolutely amazing salesperson. That's not to say that I'm unhappy with the desk. I'm quite happy with it, it fits perfectly in my room, has lots of drawers for me to hide the crap that otherwise would be cluttering the top of my dresser or teetering on top speakers/receivers/suitcases/printers and any other somewhat stable horizontal plane in my room, and she delivered it and gave me a ride home within ten minutes of walking in there. Anyway, if anybody is looking for a sales mentor or some really cool art deco furniture head down to Lounge Lizard and I guarantee you won't be disappointed. Oh, and if anyone is interested in a shared ownership deal on a light-up oak bar with a built in turntable, let me know. We can work out some sort of arrangement where we keep it at my house and you keep it stocked. Yeah, that sounds good.Covered in sailing school registrations. Cool square knobs, huh?