Day April 10, 2003

This just in “Baghdad falls: President Bush extends a heartfelt radio olive branch to Iraq’s proud population of newly-liberated, soon-to-be-christian, petroleum-pumpin’ eunuchs.”

Officials oddly cautious about Iraq Pentagon tempers joy with caution “With the fall of Baghdad, top priorities for U.S. forces in Iraq now are recovering American POWS, securing the northern oil fields and unearthing illegal weapons, Defense Secretary Donald Rumsfeld…

Are Syria, Iran, and North Korea next? Rumsfeld accuses Syria of aiding Saddam regime “Citing “scraps of intelligence” at a Pentagon news conference, Rumsfeld also renewed his accusation that Syria provided Iraq with night-vision goggles and other military technology.” Rumsfeld…

The pollsI reported on this a while back, and it’s worth repeating. Polls are generally done by telephone. Polssters get lots of answering machines, and hangups. They never call cell phones, only land line phones, and they don’t call unlisted…

The Bus Found via email, author unknown The analogy of my nation as a bus keeps coming to me, as if in a dream.  It’s a big fancy bus, and it drives through some of the poorest sections of town. When…