Wow.

I took the afternoon off, channel surfing the cable news nets catching up, and on Fox, Harold Ford is on. He ran for Senator from Tennessee and lost. A Democrat, or so he claims. That's a discussion for another day.

Anyway, he was asked by Shep Smith who won the Democratic debate last night. He said he is not allowed to say that, that his horses were all on stage last night. Except "Dennis Kucinich and the former Senator from Alaska. The other six looked Presidential."

Now.

Are you kidding me? Kucinich has no chance, and until last night, the three of us in the country watching the debate didn't even know who the Alaska guy was, but come on. Ford is supposed to be the champion for all Democrats. What a disingenuous shitbag thing to do on live television. Way to support your party, asshole.

Poll Porn

Atrios has posted the latest poll numbers from MSNBC. I enjoy porn (ahem, poll porn) as much as the next person, but I usually glance at them. But this struck me:

According to the poll, only 22 percent believe the country is on the right track. That's the lowest number on this question since October 1992, when Bush father's was running for a second term -- and lost.

Wow, 22 percent think we're doing well as a country. It's finally sunk in that we're being lied to, spun, and generally fucked without at the very least a movie and dinner for the last six years. People do hate Bush, and they hate His War, and there's nothing left for them to do to change anyone's mind.

What A Loss

David Halberstam was killed in a car crash today. A huge loss for readers everywhere. Rest in peace.

Bill Frist In A Dress

So I'm channel-flipping this evening, feeling out of touch with what's gone on today, and for the most part of the week. It's been a big news week, and a big news day: Attorney General Alberto Gonzales testifying on the Hill, hundreds of deaths this week in Iraq, and the Virginia Tech shootings, to name a few.

Anyway, while flipping between Keith Olbermann and Bill O'Reilly, I see a criminal profiler on O'Reilly who was on CNN last night. Pat somethingorother. I noted her, because she caught my limited attention span on CNN last night for being pretty inappropriate in her language as an "expert" on criminal behavior. She had obvious anger at the guy who did the shootings, and used words like 'loser.' Yes he was a loser, but she obviously missed the larger point of his psychosis.

Tonight on O'Reilly, she pulled a Bill Frist (remember, physician Frist, Senator from Tennessee, diagnosed Terry Schiavo from the floor of the Senate?) and diagnosed the guy in the VT shootings as psychopathic, not psychotic. She pointed out the differences between psychosis and psychopathology, from her limited frame of reference, and didn't see him as crazy. She saw him as too functional for that.

She's a profiler.

She felt confident that even in the face of the video the (very, very) crazy guy put out, she called him psychopathic. Because he was so functional. After all, he made it to college.

I work with mentally ill people, and some of the people I work with kick my ass in intelligence. And some have been pretty high functioning at times in their life. But no, this douchebag thinks he was psychotic psychopathic. Who are you going to believe, the criminal profiler being wooed from afar by O'Reilly, or your lying eyes?

BREAKING NEWS: EASTER IS CANCELLED

...they found the body.





That being my one and only Easter joke.

My computer is in its last throes, something Dick Cheney would be honest in saying, if he was talking about my home electronics. Anyway, light posting until late this week. Don't forget we're here. In the meantime, get some much-needed laughs at this place. Back soon, hopefully.