Just when we needed it

After the October Surprise was finally revealed -- they didn't need to theatrically capture OBL, just flash his image on TV -- this joke, from a political blog called See the Forest, was very welcome.

Q. What's the difference between Iraq and Vietnam?

A. Bush had a plan to get out of Vietnam.

Meanwhile, never mind the lost-explosives story getting pushed off the front burner. It's the FBI's criminal investigation of Halliburton that really got bumped. I tested Cris, deep in her first semester of law school. She'd heard the OBL story. She hadn't heard the Halliburton story. There you go.
 

Headline of the week

From the San Jose Mercury News: Please Make It Stop, New Mexico Voters Cry