the great unsleeping

* btw - comcast has been been blocking all email with afterdowningstreet.org in the text. thats really really bad. story here. (link)
the story has been floating around for a week or so and i figured it was all just a big misunderstanding. it turns out that there was no misunderstanding. remember the brouhaha when microsoft agreed to chinese govt requests that they block words like 'freedom'? bad microsoft. bad chinese govt.

* "Was Rove’s action merely dirty politics as usual? How do we know he isn’t in the pay of the Saudis? Or Halliburton? Or the PNAC folks? Or some religious fundamentalists? How do we know Rove isn’t personally committed to a fundamentalist agenda of imperialism? (And given that he won’t even talk about it, how do we know that Bush himself is not committed to such an agenda?)
Even more critically, how do we know Rove isn’t literally an embedded operative of a foreign or domestic organization dedicated to the overthrow of our democracy, using our gullible (to put it charitably) President as a tool?" (link)

* of the nyt's top articles over the last 7 days, one is krug's slam and #3 is Rich's slam.
and they are both younger than 3 days. both are about rove-gate, but only peripherally. the great unsleeping? (link)