...on Some Things To Celebrate

Well, it looks like the Fourth Of July did have some pleasant surprises.

First of all, TAKE THAT SPACE! The Deep Impact probe went without a hitch, blowing a nice big crater into the side of comet Tempel 1. This is a huge achievement and everybody involved deserves a big pat on the back. The experiment will not only give us detailed information on what comets are made of, it also means we are developing the ability to defend ourselves if another dinosaur-killing asteroid comes our way.

Also, blowing things up in space is cool.

Secondly, it looks like this story is taking off. If you don't know what Valerie Plame is about I'll spell it out.

Back in 2003 somebody in the Bush White House outed an undercover CIA officer because they wanted to make her husband, a foe of the Iraq War, look bad. So far we don't know who that person is, because Bush hasn't done a damn thing to find the traitor. Now we may know why, because the scumbag in question could be Bush's Brain, Karl Rove.

When Lawrence O'Donnel first reported this on The McLaughlin Group I thought it was too good to be true. Then Rove's attorney issued one of the most weasel-worded pseudo-denials I've ever heard. The tap-dancing made Clinton's famous "is" parsing look straightforward.

Now the story is starting to spread. I guess even the corporate-owned media smells blood in the water. We'll see what happens here, but nothing would make me happier than seeing the person responsible for this in a perp walk. If it was Karl Rove doing the marching, that would just make it all the sweeter.