Somewhere Around Barstow When The Drivel Began To Take Hold

The following may be, in terms of self-parody, the ne plus ultra of column leads:

The night before the announcement of Saddam's capture (round about the time that the tyrant was having a flashlight shone up his nose) I was at a media-heavy Manhattan dinner party that vividly dramatized the pre-spider hole mood. The guests -- mostly Democrats, with a smattering of moderate Republicans -- were unanimously kissing off Bush. -- Tina Brown in today's Washington Post

The John Kerry Campaign in Two Pithy Quotes

Will Saletan nails it. (Link via kausfiles).

Passage to India

I'm on the board of a start-up company and about five months ago, we received competitive bids for the job of creating our web-site. A well-known US-based design/branding firm said it could do the job for $175,000 USD. A company based in India bid the job at $17,500 USD.

Yesterday, IBM announced that it was "relocating" over four thousand software programming jobs to India and China. The numbers above tell you why.

Hoping for a Speedy Recovery

Secretary of State Colin Powell is having surgery for prostate cancer.

Point Taken

From Jim Hoagland's column in today's Washington Post:

"Why didn't you fight?" one Governing Council member asked Hussein as their meeting ended. Hussein gestured toward the U.S. soldiers guarding him and asked his own question: "Would you fight them?"

The Politics of the Rat in the Hole

A friend emails:

November less relevant. Likely 9pm call. Assuming economy does not double/triple dip, then as of today, the only pol with a chance of beating Bush is Tony Blair. I've always believed that the only real swing state in this election was in Tikrit.

Dorothy called up in tears of joy this a.m. that they had captured
Saddam in the same town where her daughter is stationed. (still, I expect
she will vote D)

As for Dems, I think this is the end of Clark. His whole logic is about
Iraq and he'd run it better. He will soon go back to cable news comentary.

Dean even to down. He still has the network, but his rationale -- I always
said this was dumb -- is less relevant. He needs to change message to
domestic, defecit, and al qaeda.

Gephardt (unions, NAFTA) and Kerry have a chance to get second wind as they have (especially gephardt) a non-Iraq message. Lieberman may have chance to get second wind on the "i was right to support
war--and I knew the problems of rebujlding"

Edwards may have chance because he is a white slate.

As for the arab dictators like Assad who have played footsie between us and the terrorists, they are going to call Bush, saying "how about that Pettite deal?" and changiing their style or they too will be riding on the dustbin of history.

A Great Day

There's nothing like good news. Best place for more info? Click here. (link via Instapundit). DOD reporting can be found here.