CNN.com - Despite polls, Bush says he has ‘capital’ - Feb 28, 2006
There are so many choice tidbits in this article covering an interview with Bush today. Here’s my favorite:

[Bush] told [the interviewer] he hopes that his presidency, in retrospect, will be viewed as an “agent for peace.”
Don’t hold your breath, there, punchy!

Salon.com News & Politics | War Room
Our fighting men and women:

What are the troops doing in Iraq? Fifty-eight percent say their mission is clear, but 42 percent say the U.S role is hazy. There’s one thing on which they agree, however: According to Zogby, which conducted the poll with New York’s Le Moyne College, 85 […]

Salon.com | When facts fail
Great 4 page interview of Mark Danner on Salon. He speaks wisdom:
When you look at the record, the phrase I come back to, not only about interrogation but the many other steps that constitute the Bush state of exception, state of emergency, since 9/11 is “take the gloves off.” We […]

Todays poll numbers were significant in many ways. The primary issue I would like to….ummmm….oh fuck it. Shrub’s numbers are so low now it’s a waste of time commenting on them.
So let’s open it up. Find a poll somewhere about something, anything and put it in comments. Pretzeldential or otherwise, your call.

Juan Cole makes a very important point today.

Someone should explain to me why last week’s events are an argument for keeping US troops in Iraq. What did they do? Did we hear about any US military units guarding Sunni mosques as they were being attacked by Shiite mobs? The LA Times reports on how US […]

Unclaimed Territory - by Glenn Greenwald: Latest Iraqi war casualty — conservative belief in “personal responsibility”
Greenwald says that the last casualty of the Iraq war is the conservative value of “Personal Responsibility.” He uses Jeffy Jeff G of Protein Wisdom as a case in point. I agree.

Some geek porn for my geek brothers and sisters out there:
A distributed computing project - in which YOU can participate - has been using “brute force” to decrypt several never-decrypted secret German communications from World War II that were encrypted with the Enigma machine.
The first message has been decrypted.
Here’s the news story about the first […]

Jeff Goldstein: Lychee Buckley
Jeff Goldstein is my new favorite wounded wingnut. Wounded wingnuts are everywhere these days, their heads withering under the pressure of seeing everything they have worked so stridently for over these past 5 years of Bush-flavored glory collapse and implode.
As I pointed out to Jeff on his amazing site in the […]

Salon.com Comics | This Modern World
Tom Tomorrow speaks funny truths! Ha!
It’s on Salon. I don’t want to hear any crying over the fact that you have to sit through an ad if you’re a non-subscriber.

Never forget that we are just a scant 4 decades away from the “end” of Jim Crow and the beginning of true civil rights for all American citizens. The battle continues to this day.
The Birmingham News in the Sunday edition released never published before photos, the negatives of which were discovered by accident in a […]