Benevolent Dictator

* via the Benevolent Dictator (sans vowels), doonesbury had a whole week's worth of Hariet Miers strips which he has had to toss into the WPB. simbaud thinks its an occupational hazard - but what it actually demonstrates is that topical cartoonists are the only people on the planet who can actually do a weeks worth of work in advance.

* i was just about to tee-off on a rant about how i dont know what the fuck is going on nor what the future portends and how we seem to be at another moment where leftblogistan and we-were-fucking-right-istan are completely witnessing/perceiving different universi when i came across this:

"Republican Senator Norm Coleman used interviews with Aziz as evidence that Saddam's regime granted 23 million barrels of oil to Mr Galloway and his Mariam Appeal fund.

But the French lawyers representing Aziz told Mr Galloway in Paris that Aziz had never made a single statement incriminating him.
[snip]
A separate UN-backed report published on Thursday also alleged the Respect MP received more than 18 million barrels of oil from the regime, and also cited interviews with Aziz."

the repugs have spent gazillions trying to counter the maxim that 'you are entitled to your own opinion, but not your own facts' - apparently they have been successful.