Random Thoughts

• Does anyone who is not a liberal actually understand the difference between anti-war and anti-Iraq-war? As someone who falls stridently in the second category I am growing a little irritated at those in the media who are unable to distinguish between the two. I am also growing a little irritated with Democrats who do not go immediately into auto-correct mode when they talk to someone (usually media or GOP) who insists on using the phrase "anti-war" to describe the Democratic position. I hang with lots of lefties here in the blogosphere and only a very tiny number of them are actually pacifists singing Kumbayah for world peace.

• Where is all the media coverage of the Chafee-Laffey primary in Rhode Island? Doesn't the media care about all those rabid, wild-eyed conservatives attempting to purge moderate Republicans from the party? Maybe they just exhausted themselves doing Lieberman coverage like a two year old child exhausts itself during a temper tantrum.

• While the Lieberman ouster didn't bother me much (he lost me on his Bankruptcy Bill vote for cloture, his Iraqi war position, his Schaivo position, privatization of social security, etc), it sure seems to have pissed my brother off. My brother is, naturally, a Republican (he would call himself an Independent but I've rarely heard him embrace an idea that would fall reasonably left of center). How dare those elitist Connecticut voters throw out one of the good guys!! That Lieberman is so appealing to Republicans should tell you a little something about his position on most any given issue. And anyway, if all those irate Republicans liked him so much then why didn't they vote for a Gore/Lieberman ticket instead of the national embarrasment that is Bush? I'd say they had a chance to show their support... now they can suck it up and watch that little thing called 'democracy' in action.
  

• Iran... Iran. Time to take out Iran. The people in the Middle East are tired of oppression, tired of their own tyrannical despots, tired of Israel, tired of occupation... they're ready for change. Problem is, I think that change is going to be a bit more radical than we had in mind. The Shia Crescent, with all that newly charged people energy, is ripe for a charasmatic leader to harness that energy and unite them in their hatred and fear. It's natural that an oppressed culture on the risk will revel in the power of their unity and seek to become the oppressors. I think the Iranian President, Mahmoud Ahmadinejad, knows this and is positioning himself to seize the day.