Ex Patria

Not interested

In the light of this, I somehow thought I should remind that we live here:

I just say: 30 miles. 

We are also not interested, thank you very much.

(Picture courtesy CIA World Factbook)

Monday morning

I'm really busy today, so you get this cartoon from Barry Deutsch.

John Scalzi on Moral Cowardice

John Scalzi, Author of the Old Man's War and The Ghost Brigades I recommended to you some time back, wrote a piece on moral cowardice on his blog Whatever:

The Senate Democrats are moral cowards for not filibustering this bill as they ought to have, fearing Republican retribution at the polls and figuring that it'll be tossed out by the courts anyway. I simply cannot understand the sort of rank and pervasive incompetence Democrats have to have in order to allow themselves to be politically flummoxed time and again by the least popular and least competent president in modern political history. The Democrats ought to have stepped on this bill's head and killed it, not only because they could have, but because they should have. Someone should have stood up for the Constitution and for the moral standing of the United States and its practices. Someone should be up there calling Bush what he is: A tiny man so frightened of the terrorist boogyman that he's willing to shred our moral standing to keep him away, and so dead-eyed hateful of what it means to be American that he can't find a way to protect this country without urinating on what it is that makes us great. Merely pounding on a podium for C-SPAN is not sufficient to do this. This bill should have been stopped. It wasn't.

Read the whole thing, it's not long.  Oh, go on, and read the whole blog.