This looks bad.

See, it's one of those things that at the time, if Gonzalez was innocent, I could see him messing up. (Why the hell would he call Andy Card if he was innocent, though?) But in the current context, it's inexcusable. Giving people time to destroy evidence is criminal. Especially if your the White House Counsel.

Does this image want to make you buy a jeep? Certainly not, right? It looks like some guy's giant head is going to eat Jason Alexander...

I'm sure I'm missing some amusing commercial that explains it, but an advertisement in a newspaper should perhaps stand on its own. This one doesn't. And besides, doesn't giving regular people the "employee discount" just another way of saying "we're screwing our employees"? Way to go, GM.

I don't get sick very often. And I mention it far less than it actually happens, because I think saying "I'm sick" is a form of weakness.

With that said, I've been sick the past two days, and it has not been fun. Hence the light posting.

Today, let me just point out one quick editorial from The New Republic. Every time I start to despair that TNR is slipping into Andrew Sullivan/Marty Peretz/crazytalk, they come out with something that brilliantly summarizes the progressive point of view on something. This editorial is just that piece.

Even the words are nuanced. Instead of saying, as the WaPo did, that Wilson's post trip activities were somehow misguided (as Wilson himself pointed out, why would he go to work for the Bush campaign, considering that they had outed his wife?), the NR merely suggests he made himself an easier target. That's the correct terminology, because in the end, Wilson has been pretty consistently proved right in each detail.

At the end of the day, Americans need to ask themselves: if the administration lied to get us to go to war, should they be trusted to govern? The answer is, of course, no.

Terminal Man has finally arrived.

It's about time.

I've discovered that I really like delis. Not, of course, the traditional New York ones...simply because I wouldn't know where to find one of those. No, I'm talking about the local deli area of the supermarket. Why would I pay $10.00 for a sandwich out when I could spend half that and get twice as much meat? A half-pound of roast beef on sourdough or pastrami on rye...mmm. The only problem I have right now is that the local panera slices their bread too thin, so I really need to get a bread knife to slice my own.

Yes, Tuesday Salon was good. As always...