Author: Second Nature

I knew this day was coming, but still it was a shock when it arrived.  It had been an especially good day on Saturday, filled with moments so bright and sweet that you long, even as you’re living them, to hold this...

Want to help a high school newspaper report on the CIA leak, Karl Rove, Scooter Libby, Dick (Dick) Cheney, and George W. Bush?

My son is the editor in chief of his high school newspaper and decided, last-minute like, to try to squeeze in a story about the CIA leak amidst the articles on football, the fall play, and music reviews.

Can you tell him why this story is so important and provide a good encapsulation and timeline?  Can he borrow liberally from your awesome ideas?

Thanks!

People, people, people.  You don’t just DECIDE what a community is going to be.  A community develops when a bunch of different voices and faces from all over the world with varying personalities and experiences and beliefs get together in one place and communicate with each other.

You can decide what standards you are going to enforce (dont be a prick) and you can decide to cast out those that don’t toe the line….but real communities are fluid and dynamic and they develop a personality all their own, ON their own.

Let me tell you why I am here.

Looks like Arlen Specter, chairman of the Judiciary Committee is very interested in what the White House, more specifically Karl Rove, told FOF frontman James (Squarepants) Dobson to allay his fears about supreme court nominee Harriet Miers and earn at least a lukewarm endorsement from Dobson.

Courtesy of the New York Times and as seen on “This Week” with George Stephanopolous, Dobson said in his radio address last week that he had been told things he probably shouldn’t know, but he couldn’t divulge them, and what he had been told convinced him to support the nomination of Harriet Miers to the SCOTUS.

Specter is quoted as saying:

Dobson acknowledged talking to Rove before making his statement.

It’s fun to see the growing chorus of suspicion surrounding this administration and Karl Rove in particular.  The president is clearly using code language to calm the fears of evangelical christians, and it certainly appears as if Rove crossed another ethical line in making Dobson privvy to information that the rest of us apparently don’t have the right to know.

Hopefully it will be a fun week watching Rove circle the drain.

[From the diaries by susanhu with updates/edits. NBC concert will be reaired at 9am PT today.] Holy crap, people.  Is anyone watching the benefit concert on NBC?  Kanye West just let loose with a totally unscripted,...