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Many thanks to my wonderful sister, divine_debris for making me a new Doctor Who torture icon. And for promising me episodes 7-12 soon. Of course it can't be soon enough. *happy sigh*

I think I figured out why I like this incarnation so much, beyond the fact that he's dead sexy, of course. Episode two changed "like" to "love", I think it was the combination of vulnerability and manic energy, the revelation of his own personal tragedy, and last but not least, the image of him rocking out to "Tainted Love". This Doctor wouldn't have to ask me twice to get in his TARDIS...hell, he wouldn't have to ask me once. I'm going to be devastated when he regenerates, but if I had to put money on the situation that'll cause it, it'd be some grand sacrifice through which he hopes to expiate his survivor's guilt.

At any rate, last night I managed to catch a favorite film of mine almost from the beginning, "Mr. Skeffington". Claude Rains and Bette Davis, how can you go wrong with that combination? At the end of the flick I was told there's a new boxed set of Bette's films out that includes "Now Voyager" and "Dark Victory" as well as "Mr. Skeffington" and my jaw dropped. It will be mine, oh yes, it will be mine.

Got some housework done, finished up my convention costume, pulled everything out I need for Saturday and even started my packing for the trip. Go me! But still no wireless for me :(

Now *that's* a zombie movie I'd pay $10 to see

via The RudePundit:

The point yesterday when Deputy Attorney General J. Michael Wiggins told the Senate Judiciary Committee, in answer to a question from Joe Biden, that, regarding inmates at the prison at Guantanamo Bay, "It's our position that, legally, they can be held in perpetuity" was the moment that the zombie corpses of Benjamin Franklin, Thomas Jefferson, and John Adams should have burst into the chamber and ripped the head off the government stooge who just declared the United States shits on three and a half centuries of legal precedent. Then the three Founders should have divided and eaten Wiggins's depraved brain before heading over to the increasingly misnamed Department of Justice to dine on Alberto Gonzales's intestines. Ahh, sweet vengeance of history - the government that has eaten away the Constitution will now get eaten by those who created it.

Go read the rest.

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Wow, hat's off to the Washington Post, and many thanks to Atrios for posting the best bits. Michael Smith on the Downing St. Memo:

The attitude they have taken is just flat wrong, to borrow an expression from the White House spokesman on the Downing St Memo.

It is one thing for the New York Times or the Washington Post to say that we were being told that the intelligence was being fixed by sources inside the CIA or Pentagon or the NSC and quite another to have documentary confirmation in the form of the minutes of a key meeting with the Prime Minister's office. Think of it this way, all the key players were there. This was the equivalent of an NSC meeting, with the President, Donald Rumsfeld, Colin Powell, Condi Rice, George Tenet, and Tommy Franks all there. They say the evidence against Saddam Hussein is thin, the Brits think regime change is illegal under international law so we are going to have to go to the UN to get an ultimatum, not as a way of averting war but as an excuse to make the war legal, and oh by the way we arent preparing for what happens after and no-one has the faintest idea what Iraq will be like after a war. Not reportable, are you kidding me?

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Michael Smith: There are number of people asking about fixed and its meaning. This is a real joke. I do not know anyone in the UK who took it to mean anything other than fixed as in fixed a race, fixed an election, fixed the intelligence. If you fix something, you make it the way you want it. The intelligence was fixed and as for the reports that said this was one British official. Pleeeaaassee! This was the head of MI6. How much authority do you want the man to have? He has just been to Washington, he has just talked to George Tenet. He said the intelligence and facts were being fixed around the policy. That translates in clearer terms as the intelligence was being cooked to match what the administration wanted it to say to justify invading Iraq. Fixed means the same here as it does there. More leaks? I do hope so and the more Blair and Bush lie to try to get themselves off the hook the more likely it is that we will get more leaks.