five days of bliss await me

I'm so glad I'm not an airport security employee today.

It's really interesting to hear the wide variety of reactions from travelers. It's everything from "well, I'd rather wait in line than be dead" to "it's completely stupid that I have to throw out my lipgloss." Having to taste my own breast milk would be kind of a drag. As would being forced to be on a flight to London without the distraction of a book or my trusty Nalgene bottle. I do take comfort in the knowledge that once again the midwest appears safe from attack. As usual, terrorists are much more interested in the cool cities than the heartland.

I don't know about you but I'm pretty sick and tired of hearing that a ceasefire plan is a mere few days away only to discover that we're still doing the same old thing: Tony Snow stands in the press room and says that no one should escalate the violence (that's you Israel) and yet Condi Rice talks to Olmert on the phone and doesn't tell him to hold off on the ground assault.
I have a prediction. This administration will go down as having the worst record of diplomacy in American history. It's transparent and is being run like it's a kid's game. It's never good when I start talking about how much better off we'd be if only Bush Sr. was our Secretary of State.

Darth Cheney had some really nice things to say about the Democratic Party and Lieberman. He implied that those who supported the ousting of Lieberman were encouraging "al Qaeda types." Oh Cheney, you big card. Methinks someone's getting a little scared about midterms. And Lieberman? Keep up the outstanding work of sounding like a Republican.

I wonder how the Democrats will take this amazing opportunity and screw it up?

Speaking of Democrats who screw things up, I sent the Granholm campaign an email expressing my displeasure with her first ad. And I was only allowed 255 characters (including spaces between words!) in which to do that. Brevity of language is not my strong suit. I'm pretty sure the email said something like "The ad misses the mark and has embarrassingly low production value. It's not about gas prices. It's the economy, stupid. Respond to DeVos attacks or I go 3rd party."

Eloquent, no?

I think I might have mentioned this, but I've got some plans Saturday night involving me, a Berghoef, and a Bob Dylan.

The next post will be a review of the concert.
Consider yourselves warned.