All he needs is a bow tie.
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Brooks - what a master of the phrase

David Brooks is such a chimp. He gets his own column in the New York Times, and he gets it for writing dreck like this:

"Among the many achievements of the human race - Chartres Cathedral, the Mona Lisa - surely the New Orleans emergency preparedness plan must rank among the greatest, and the fact that this plan turned out to be irrelevant to reality should not detract from its stature as a masterpiece of bureaucratic thinking."

This is his opening graph for today's editorial. Trite trite trite. And not only that, but his opinion is almost always, well, wrong. In my humble opinion. (And that's why we have blogs, isn't it?)

Even if he was right, like he seems to kind of be in this recent column, he shouldn't be allowed to write. He's a poncy retent, prattling along in a pink shirt in a national forum. Can we not get some serious commentators in the Paper of Record? Honestly. He is a useless spigot.

Talking Amerrrrcan

When you've got three minutes to kill, this is what you should kill it with:

http://www.xroadsfilms.com/batescomedycentral/

Use the Ford, Luke.
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Flying back from Oregon this week I saw this down below. It's a pair of dice clear-cut into the forest. That's a two on the left, and less apparent from this angle, it's a five on the right. Comment on the crapped out logging industry perhaps?
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Freedom's Just Another Word For Nothin' Left to Lose

The Pentagon has the 'Freedom March' on Sunday, meant to support our troops.

Fantastic oxymoronic design and implementation for a 'Freedom' anything:

A.P.:
Organizers of the Pentagon's 9/11 memorial Freedom Walk on Sunday are taking extraordinary measures to control participation in the march and concert, with the route fenced off and lined with police and the event closed to anyone who does not register online by 4:30 p.m. today.

The march, sponsored by the Department of Defense, will wend its way from the Pentagon to the Mall along a route that has not been specified but will be lined with four-foot-high snow fencing to keep it closed and "sterile," said Allison Barber, deputy assistant secretary of defense.

The U.S. Park Police will have its entire Washington force of several hundred on duty and along the route, on foot, horseback and motorcycles and monitoring from above by helicopter. Officers are prepared to arrest anyone who joins the march or concert without a credential and refuses to leave, said Park Police Chief Dwight E. Pettiford.

The event, the America Supports You Freedom Walk, is billed as a memorial to victims of the 2001 terrorist attacks and a show of support for those serving in the military, topped off with a concert by country singer Clint Black, known for his pro-troops anthem, "Iraq and Roll." Organizers said they expect 3,000 to 10,000 participants.

Barber said that organizers would rather not have such stringent measures on their event but that police had requested them.

Pettiford said officers would patrol to keep interlopers out because the Pentagon restricted the event in its permit application. "That is what their permit called for, so we have those fences to keep the public out."