A cry of defiance, and not of fear,
A voice in the darkness, a knock at the door,
And a word that shall echo for evermore!----Longfellow

Then we have Harry Reid, Traitor. and unprincipled.

So, despite his repeated support of legislative restrictions on abortion, Reid's latest comment suggests that he believes the Supreme Court's decision was regrettable and wrongly decided, and that a law that he supported is unconstitutional. To me, the latter is of greater concern. Call me old fashioned, but I believe that if a member of the Senate believes a law is unconstitutional, he or she should vote against it.

Austin Bay:

It would be refreshing if Reid even had the courage of his defeatist convictions. Thing is, his 'convictions' aren’t convictions. They are the political postures, and this statement is an example of his political game. He tosses a line to the Dems’ defeatist nuts then edges toward reality with an oily pirouette.

An Oily Pirouette. That would have been my alternate title.

I thought I had a dental appointment, but that's next week. I walked a mile in the mall, though, to get over 100 miles so I can get a t-shirt. (I'm currently back in the Bay to Breakers t-shirt rotation and have been for a month. One of the '99s is missing, sulk.) Then I came home and discovered this. It's MIT's Open Course Work, no registration, no credit, no contact with the profs, but you can take MIT classes online. I feel like I've been locked in a candy store. How I managed to get any proofing done I don't know.

The Single Worst Editorial Decision in the History of Broadcast News. I was pretty well fed up with NBC news anyway because of the constant Katrina stuff (I like Charlie Gibson) but this pretty well frosts it. This person gets it right: "The blood of the victims of the 'next one' is on the hands of everyone in the decision-making chain at NBC for this utterly inexcusable decision."

Most ethical.