Friday Cat Blogging

Caledonia on the job

Sometimes I like to write SQL code and participate in long conference calls. And, of course, nap.


Just for the Record

I have absolutely no interest in what Donald Trump and Rosie O'Donnell are saying to each other, so can all the news channels please please please stop talking about this PR-managed non-story? Between all the wars and stuff, I think there are some more important things going on right now.


Brzezinski on Bush on Iraq

Zbigniew Brzezinski doesn't like much about the President's "new way forward" in Iraq. Here's what he sees as the big picture screw-up:

The [January 10] speech reflects a profound misunderstanding of our era. America is acting like a colonial power in Iraq. But the age of colonialism is over. Waging a colonial war in the post-colonial age is self-defeating. That is the fatal flaw of Bush's policy.

Read the whole thing for some of the rather damning details.