Not even a real blog post, suckers!

Just a couple random thoughts.

Digby on why partisanship is not a bad thing these days:

The political system in this country is roiling right now and it is not going to be nice and friendly for a while. We disagree on some fundamental issues and we're going to have to hash them out. I'm sorry that makes it hard for Village hostesses to put together a congenial dinner party, but they're just going to have to adjust.

An article in Salon about the Breakfast Liberation Front:

So if cereal isn't the elixir it's cracked up to be, why can't you riffle the lady mags at the supermarket without being admonished to start the day with a bowl? News flash: We -- the American people in the year 2007 -- are not highly respected by nutritionists. In their view, they are talking us down from a bag brimming with Egg McMuffins and hash browns or a jumbo Snickers bar and a 16-ounce Coke. Their advice is tempered by a venti dose of "lesser of two evils."

My experience of nutritionists (during pregnancy) forces me to concur with this assessment of nutritionists' opinions of us. Also: all that measuring! And exhortations about drinking 8 glasses of water a day (a myth! a myth!, I tell you! Drink when you're thirsty. But 8 glasses sure is an easy way to feel virtuous and healthy!)

"Limbaugh latest victim in war of condemnation", says NYT headline. Oh, cry me a damn river! If I were prone to engaging in eliminationist rhetoric, which I'm not, I'd engage in some about Rush Limbaugh. But that man's audience should be limited to the roaches in his basement.

Oh, and here's tristero:

Let's go over that again. One excuse doesn't work, so they come up with another. And if that one doesn't fly, you can bet your bippy they'll find a third. The important thing is: sell the war.

Got it? That means there is no real reason to go to war with Iran. If there was, they wouldn't be switching reasons when they don't poll well. Bush and Cheney just want to do it. That's all. They just want to.

I can't believe this is happening. And I have no idea how this can be stopped. This is sheer madness, not only on Bush's part. A press that isn't howling loudly about this, a political class that isn't speaking up as one to prevent this, and finally, a public that can't be troubled to protest warmaking on a whim - the country is as insane as it was in the fall of '02.

And that is really fucking scary.

Please, please let us not go to war with Iran AND elect Rudy Giuliani. Then I will have to move to New Zealand, and while it's lovely there, it's awfully far away.