Our cat Sally could teach infantry tactics at West Point. Earlier this week, T. brought home a cat from her old neighborhood; for the time being, Marley lives in our bedroom while she adjusts to her new digs. When we got up this morning, we found Sally perfectly positioned on the stairs outside of the bedroom. She was on the far left at the top of the staircase, which afforded her both a maximum field of vision and plenty of time to block Marley should she dare to exit the room. Moreover, Sally set herself so that she could easily cut off any desperate attempt to go up the stairs. It was a masterful performance that would impress any cadet...The MSM has begun complaining that Barack Obama has been overly reticent about the details of his stimulus plan, how a Big 3 bailout would work, etc. At the risk of sounding like an apologist, why should he do anything different? First of all, he regrettably is not yet the president. Second, it would distract from the efforts underway. Third, what has happened is the combined result of a disastrous presidency, decades of shortsighted mismanagement, and historical forces that we as a nation have neither recognized nor adapted to. Nothing Obama says or does now will influence the near term, so why not wait until his administration is in place?...
Journalism professor Charles Seiffe writes in The New York Times that the Minnesota senate election is effectively a tie, and that we will never know who won. He's right: When more than 3,000,000 produces produce a winning margin of 215, no recount will ever produce a result that exceeds the margin of error. Minnesota's highly regarded election process appears to have survived the idiotic Republican charges of bias; at this point, we just have to let that process play itself out. For what it's worth, the Franken campaign now claims a 22-vote lead...
Slug to Mutt: "I'm no Sarah Palin." Ileana Ros-Lehtinen, the Florida congresswoman who hung up on Barack Obama not once but twice, explains what happened here. It turns out that a radio station in her district is notorious for making prank calls to politicians, and she assumed that someone from the station was doing an excellent impression of the president-elect...
R. I. P., Odetta. Read the personal reminiscence on Foxessa's blog here, then watch Odetta's amazing rendition of "House of the Rising Sun:"
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