I’ve changed up my schedule lately so that I can get more work done on my real money project during the day. The result is that I’m waiting ‘til later to post here, and that means I’m tired and not as inclined to spend gobs of time on my blog. It’s probably best in the long run, but it doesn’t quite support what I mentioned a few days ago about wanting to polish the writing here. I’ll see if I can’t find a way to do both.

I have a couple of posts I’m working on and hope to put up here in the next day or two, but for now I’m going to try to keep the “Nothings” brief and get some shuteye.

• Josh Marshall has been on it lately. “It,” in this case, is the story about the 350 tons – and that’s TONS – of high-grade explosives that we left unguarded in Iraq at the start of the war and which have since disappeared. Read here, here, and especially here, or just go to Talking Points Memo and keep scrolling. And Athenae at First Draft zeroes in on the really telling question in all this.

• Speaking of excellent work, Michael Bérubé serves up a primo smackdown of Camille Paglia’s dumbass doubletalk.

• Sid the Fish reads between the lines of Bush’s appearance on Good Morning America

• A big WTF!? to MSNBC’s Andrea Mitchell, via Catch.

Three from Boing Boing:

• More Jon Stewart video available at C-SPAN. This is from an October 14th discussion at Syracuse University (though I think the video was broadcast on the 23rd). I think people really underestimate Stewart’s acuity. You can’t dismiss him as just an uninformed clown, and he’s not taking himself so seriously that he can’t laugh at himself. To me, he comes off as a caring citizen with a strong point of view.

• This is just too weird. I’ll rip the entire post from Boing Boing:

When a Douglasville, Georgia woman returned home from a 2 1/2 week holiday to Greece, she found that a total stranger had moved into her house, ripped up the carpet, changed the photos on the walls, and was wearing clothes from her closet. The squatter also switched the utilities over to her own name and installed a washer and dryer.

• Also from Boing Boing, Cory Doctorow notes why market-forces can’t correct for stupid Digital Rights Management schemes.

A couple from First Draft:

• Holden is obsessed with the gaggle, and why not? Scottie McClellan is a better contortionist than anyone Cirque du Soliel has to offer.

• Athenae quotes from The New Yorker’s endorsement of Kerry and notes that the magazine has not previously endorsed a presidential candidate in its entire 80-year history.

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Tuesday, October 26th, 2004 @ 1:08 am Nothings
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