Inside Baseball

Blogger fried out for the entire blogosphere last night, apparently. I tried to liveblog the king's address for awhile, but finally had to give up just to watch the screen grabs. John McCain, looking ever so Presidential, fell asleep. Hillary and Obama were rock stars. Bush got groped. Cheney looked like he had eaten live bugs having to sit next to the 1st woman Speaker. I love politics.

This blog is for the 'average person', whom I consider to be someone who only occasionally pays attention to what's important to them. I stray from that once in awhile, but still.

The trial of Scooter Libby is Inside Baseball to the extreme. Only people who watch CSPAN for fun will think it's exciting (it's awesomely exciting, but I digress). However, even though the average person doesn't find it exciting, it does branch out into all kinds of things that are important: how we got to war, the power of the Vice President, the pressure brought to bear on the intelligence community. Do these things affect us day to day? Not directly, but they absolutely do indirectly. All of these things lead to how much money we pay for gas, secondary to political instability and our foolishness. That's just one example. There are others, but it's been a long day.

Anyway, what all this is leading to, is to direct you to the best liveblogging ever. Firedoglake is on fire, literally, encapsulating the trial into user-friendly snippets. Even what you might think to be the most dry, boring testimony is interesting. Because it has choice parts of gooey pleasure, like: Will Libby himself testify? How will the jury react to Dick Cheney's testimony? What's the strategy? Like I said, Inside Baseball to the extreme. Do yourself a favor and read a little. Who doesn't love a gooey center? It's addicting.