All shook down

Nitpicker invites us to a sing-along as we travel merrily, merrily down the road to destruction.

Julia over at Sysiphus Shrugged thinks that black leaders in Georgia are being boneheads...mainly because they are.

The Daily Kos points out that it looks like the White House has found a scapegoat for why they haven't been able to get their war on yet. One hint: he's no longer valuable since his credibility is in the crapper. Looks like Harry Belafonte was right after all.

Media Whores Online has been working overtime. Lots on the bashing of le French. When are the neo-cons going to start picking on China and Russia? And what about those money-grubbing Turks? When will we start getting the Midnight Express references?

Today's Doonesbury.

Tom Toles

Ann Telnaes

...and Andy Sullivan directs us to this highly amusing quote from Tina Brown, of all people:

Is it just the residue of fashion week that makes me wish there were more, or should I say any, gay men in the Bush Administration? At The Sunday Times in the Seventies one top editor used to shake his head when the paper became too humourlessly high-testosterone and say that what it needed that week was 'more pooftah power'. In lieu of outright womanhood — except for Condoleezza Rice, who crosses the gender barriers by becoming the most zealous enabler — perhaps an injection of androgyny could be brought to bear on diplomatic relations in this moment of crisis. The Bush crowd's only management style, like that of many who subscribe to the outmoded cult of America’s Toughest Bosses, is to unzip and thwack it on the table.

More from Brown:

The offence of it is enhanced by the fact that we know how unauthentic Bush is in this role of macho man. Unlike the war vet Powell, who never swaggers, he has no credentials for talking the tough talk.

And finally.....yesterday I bought my first $30 tank of gas. Just want to say to the oilmen who are in charge:

Thanks!..............................dickheads.