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Thanks to selki for pointing me to this piece reacting to the president's call for a constitutional amendment. It's not as entertaining as misia's response, but I enjoyed it nonetheless. And it does contain the priceless quote: "Mr. Bush has a lot of nerve talking about "activist judges," considering that he owes his presidency to five of them." :-)

update

B's brother is out of surgery. Apparently things seem to have gone as well as could be hoped; they took out about 8" of colon and think they've got all of the cancerous portions...

alas, poor Yorick

I dearly love Alastair Cooke, but I think that his latest Letter from America suggests that he's getting a bit past it. It's rambly, vague, unfocused. It doesn't seem clear what he's really trying to get at (if anything). It suggests that Bush I should have been allowed to skip the '92 election because he organized a campaign to oust Iraq from Kuwait. It suggests that Clinton wanted to invade Iraq (I think this would be news to President Clinton and his NSC). It suggests that the Bush II adminsitration has three Gulf War veterans in it (oh? which ones? what units did they serve in?) It wobbles through a heavily partisan and debateable history of the current presidential campaign.

But most of all, it leave one asking: what's your point, Alastair? I'm sorry to say it of someone I cherish and respect, but I think that perhaps the Great Cookemonster is getting senile.