Some fun photos of Saddam, from Beirut!

This is what I call a good news day!

Spacecraft built on the quiet goes supersonic on its first solo flight

By Jim Skeen in Mojave, California
December 19, 2003

Sorry, has it been a whole week already? What, more? The Saddam thing was fun, and we all stopped hearing about Michael Jackson for all of about two days. I saw LOTR ROTK last night, yowsa! And this column showed up, the bestest I've seen (and the only one, y'know, really worth mentioning lately) and here it is:


AT WAR

The Campaign of Hate and Fear
Some of my fellow Democrats are unpatriotic.

BY ORSON SCOTT CARD

Here's a cool line:


In one of Patrick O'Brian's novels about the British navy during the Napoleonic wars, he dismisses a particularly foolish politician by saying that his political platform was "death to the Whigs." Watching the primary campaigns among this year's pathetic crop of Democratic candidates, I can't help but think that their campaigns would be vastly improved if they would only rise to the level of "Death to the Republicans."

Instead, their platforms range from Howard Dean's "Bush is the devil" to everybody else's "I'll make you rich, and Bush is quite similar to the devil."

(It's all smart, but that's the smartest line, too.)