Sorry for the light blogging lately. Work is crazy at the moment. Plus the mobile was down Monday because President Bush decided that the way to avert global warming is to unilaterally push daylight savings time back a week but the phone companies forgot to install the Windows patch so that their clocks would wait the extra week before moving an hour. Last night I plugged it in to charge but of course forgot to plug in the charger. Ugh.

All I have to say is that the DOJ is a real piece of work these days. Mukasey admitted water boarding is ok with him - oh sorry, he just can't say until he reads the official classified department position which we all found out a few weeks ago is that it is ok. More than anything this says to me that he is a barely competent weasel. At least Gonzalex knew he had to lie about things like this rather than giving poorly parsed answers.

Civil Rights is run by a freaking racist. I mean most federal agencies just pack all their token minorities at the head of CR and leave the shop to very good and dedicated career folks. But DOJ is in charge of preventing disenfranchisement; an incompetent manager might not be able to stop all those career folks from preventing disenfranchisement. So they put in a really effective partisan. Unfortunately he is also a biggot so says stuff like things that hamper the elderly are only unfair to white people because all the black people die off before retirement and if black people have an ID for the check cashing place and pawn shop, why can't you bring it to the voting station. Disgusting. Oh, and for everyone saying but it's true, his deputy also collected salary and travel expenses from the department while vacationing in Taxachusetts! Disgusting.