You Current with No River in Sight. Current as Confetti after Parades

Q: What about ordering a village of resistants to be massacred? ... Is that a power that the president could legally--

Yoo: "Yeah. Although, let me say this. So, certainly, that would fall within the commander-in-chief's power over tactical decisions.

Q: To order a village of civilians to be [exterminated]?

Yoo: Sure.

!HEH! and then:

To summarize:  the NYT Op-Ed Page decided, for whatever reasons, that it wanted to find someone to urge more civilian deaths in Afghanistan.  The person it found to do that is someone about whom virtually nothing was known, yet works for one of the largest, most sprawling and influential defense firms in the nation, a virtual arm of the Pentagon, but they decided there was no reason to have its readers know that.

I'll suspend posting consecutive wails of roobish outrage until next time, but I'm asking: there's not one politician from the Left with any heft who'll demagogue the FUCK! out of what pisses off dumb motherfuckers like me for only craven political gain - more face time on cable, an increase in donations and, if there are as many dumb motherfuckers like me like I like to think there are, one thin wafer more power?

• Where are the high-profile Democrats calling bullshit?
• UPDATE! Read this.
• UPDATE! Read this.
• Don't blame Geithner, blame who hired, won't fire.
• Geithner refuses to come down from Capitol dome.
• Winning hearts.
• Do you really want to Newt me?
• Pining for Thermidor.
• Pigs truly are pussies.
• The ascendancy of Krugman.
• Your Fucking Washington Post.
• Manipulated by menus.

• Bab's running:

• A pig-nobody running against her.
• Van Hollen posturing.
• Clarksburg Historical District is a stoplight.
• More crossbow hunting for Maryland!
• More money for worsening service!
• No one wants to run Metro.
• Yeah, I changed the color of the quotes, again by request for googlereaders.
• The Orioles could have had Jon Miller. Instead, they have Joe Angel.
• Dimitar Berbatov is.... The Continental.
• USMNT WC10 road kit:

• Meh. O! watched Everton v Man Utd Saturday morning, and (a) Man Utd just ain't that good and (b) if I was Landon Donovan I would be asking my agent to go to any lengths necessary to get out of my MLS (Must Leave Soon) contract.
• Will it be a strike or lockout?
• Goff writes Anschutz, reminds me that Anschultz is a MAJOR pig, reminds me that I watch soccer in America by way of pigs like Anschutz and on FOX Soccer Channel.
• Did you know United hasn't scored a goal in three games?

• Beckett is another promise I've made to try again.
• Calvocoressi interview. I'm smitten.
• Hillary Mantel leaves Saudi Arabia after four years.
• New Gerald Stern poem.
• On the critic in an age of overwhelming cultural production.
• DeLillo on Mad Men and writing.
• Inherent Vice considered.
• Hot for librarian?
• A guide to fiction online.
• On the rules.
• Truly horrible news.
• You just thought Gordon Sumner is an asshole.
• New Broken Social Scene coming in May!
• Shearwater covers Eno.

Today's Listening Assignment. Today's Listening Assignment.
Today's Listening Assignment. Today's Listening Assignment.
Today's Listening Assignment. Today's Listening Assignment.
Today's Listening Assignment. Today's Listening Assignment.
Today's Listening Assignment. Today's Listening Assignment.
Today's Listening Assignment. Today's Listening Assignment.
Today's Listening Assignment. Today's Listening Assignment.

A LOVE SUPREME

Gabrielle Calvocoressi

You beautiful, broke-
back horse of my heart. Proud,
debonair, not quite there

in the head. You current
with no river in sight.
Current as confetti

after parades. You
small-town. Italian
ice shop next to brothels

beside the highway.
Sweet and sweaty. You high
as a kite coming

down. You suburban sprawled
on the bed. You dead? Not
nearly. Not yet.

 

Another one of dozens of my five favorite songs ever: