A headline from the Washington Post today:

Congressional Oversight of Intelligence Criticized

Does that strike anyone else as rather non sequitur? Can you even use congress and intelligence in the same sentence? There’s got to be some metaphor that applies here. The fox guarding the chickens? No. That doesn’t quite work. Blind leading the blind? Nope. Hmmmm… [...]

In every heart there is a room
A sanctuary safe and strong
To heal the wounds of lovers past
Until a new one comes along
I spoke to you in cautious tones
You answered me with no pretense
And still I feel I said too much
My silence is my self defense
And every time I’ve held a rose
It seems I only felt [...]

Went and saw Latter Days last night. For those unfamiliar with the movie, it is about a Mormon missionary who falls in love with his gay neighbor while serving in Los Angeles. I’m a sucker for a sappy love story, so the fairytale ending was enough to distract me from the film’s shortcomings. I like [...]

Incoming Prime Minister Jose Luis Rodriguez Zapatero pledged to withdraw Spain’s 1,300 troops from Iraq by June 30. But even that wasn’t good enough or fast enough to placate al Qaeda. The most recent threat to Spain’s government, sent in a letter from an Ansar al Qaeda Europe group spokesman to Spain’s newspaper ABC, now [...]