WTF Is It Now?!?

QUOTES: "Despite all the rhetoric about getting 'tough' on corporate crime, Bush’s Corporate Responsibility program involves a long list of tepid reforms -- what you’d expect from a president desperate to keep the current crisis from becoming a major political liability for his party and his presidency." - By Lee Drutman and Charlie Cray, AlterNet.

"if it was confidence Bush wanted to restore, he failed utterly. He spoke like a hostage with a gun to his head. Here was a man simply trying to get ahead of an issue, going through the prescribed political paces. The only confidence he instilled has to do with what will happen to his initiatives if the Democrats turn their backs for a second. They will be abandoned. It's not that the words were not there -- Bush has good speechwriters -- it's just that this time the ventriloquists were failed by the dummy." - Richard Cohen in the Washington Post.









SILLY CAT STORIES
When cats give you hickeys... Last night Egon (the orange kitten) slept upstairs with us for the first time. He spent most of the night purring, nestled in my hair, draped across my neck, or curled up against my face. A few times he tried suckling my earlobes and eyelids, and there were a couple of occasions when I woke up because he was licking the inside of one of my nostrils. It's a good thing he's so cute...