I forgot. I posted another article on the DNO yesterday. Guess what it's about...

Here's the teaser and linker:

John Kerry just had the best week of his presidential campaign and all he had to do was go on vacation. - full story

enjoy.

...But this one is just so darned cute:

Cheese Test: What type of cheese are you?

Question: Is Ray Romano really worth $2 million dollars an episode? I've seen the Ray Romano television program, and while he is kind of funny, he's no Urkel. That kid was comedy gold.

This afternoon, I was walking back to the office and perhaps due to the combination of the spring weather and the approach of baseball season, I subconsciously gripped my apple in the manner of a split-finger fastball. That got me thinking. What if I wrote a series of noir-esque novels about an ex-major-league pitcher turned P.I., or maybe a disgraced pitcher recruited as a CIA-assassin (or some other covert government agency) to fight enemies foreign and domestic?

In one scene, he could fell a whole gaggle of underworld kingpins, or terrorists, or Nazis (if I set it in the 40’s) or something by commandeering a fruit-cart and hurling apples at speeds approaching 95 miles per hour.

I could name him something like Terk McGrew or Lefty Jones or something. The titles would be like “Terk McGrew: Split-Finger Man” or “Lefty Jones: Fastballs at Cyrano’s” if he is a P.I. or, if I go the covert operative route, stuff like “The Wrigley Protocol” or “The Ruth Damnation”.

Good idea or dumb idea?

Withdraw patent application for "Dr. Lickee's Learn to Type With Your Tongue!" typing methodology.

Thanks for the link, Marc

The Temptation of the Donkeys

John McCain's statement that he would "entertain" the notion of running as John Kerry's Vice President may seem alluring to some Democrats, but is there really any reason to succumb to the temptation? - read the rest here

BTW, I've realized I am starting to sound like a bit of a broken record in these things, but I find myself astounded at how good a job Kerry is doing so far. I didn't really expect this from him. Next week, I'll try to move away from process stuff a little bit, but I am finding it difficult to come up with other stuff to write about.

Feel free to leave suggestions.

The returns are in and I lost. Badly.

Oh well.

So I cast my primary vote this morning for Dean. Believe it or not, I was actually unsure whether I would. I thought about voting for Kerry as a sign of unity or something, but I just could not bring myself to do it. Even though I am long over the disappointment of Dean not contending for the nominations, in a weird way I felt that I owed a Dean vote to all the people I worked with over the last year. It was a final way of honoring what we had done to move our guy from an asterisk to one-time front-runner. No one ever would have known who Dean was, and I believe this election would have been much less exciting if it was not for all of us.

Now the precinct caucus tonight is a different story. I think I will be signing in for Kerry (you can do that in TX). Admittedly, there will be a bit of a psychological feeling of “closure” or “moving on” if I sign in for Kerry and not Dean. Even more importantly, however, if I sign in for Kerry, I have a chance at advancing as a delegate to the Senate District Convention. The key here is to stay as actively involved in the process for as long as possible. While it would be nice to try to get delegates for Dean, I think it is more important for Dean folks to work on changing things from the inside than to make some kind of moral stand on Dean's behalf. Anyway, that's just my $0.02.

In other news, I also cast a vote for myself this morning. It was quite an interesting feeling seeing my name on the ballot. I do not know if I will win. I did not do as much work on the campaign as I probably could have. I also should have made the decision to run an active campaign sooner, but it is out of my hands now, I guess. Internal polling of one household shows I will get at least two votes to zero for my opponent, so it could be a landslide. Either way, it was worth the try, and either way, I will stay involved.

In the interest of spreading good things around...

I saw this over on Kos and thought I'd post it here.

I received the following in an email this morning...

ANNOUNCING !!
JOHN KERRY for President of the United States
TOWN HALL EVENT
SATURDAY March 6 at 9:30 AM

Ask the nominee about your favorite issue: What about human space flight? What about Bush's cynical use of terrorism to further partisan political agendas? What about the environment? What happened to our role as a global leader for democracy? Etc. etc.

Houston Community College Southwest
5601 West Loop South
West Loop Center Auditorium
9:30-11:00 AM
Doors Open at 7:30AM

There is seating for 600, so please come early to make it through the magnetometers prior to the event. Harris County Democrats plan to rally around the site to cheer on Kerry in his battle against George W. Bush. Signs will not be allowed in the auditorium because this is a town hall meeting, but bring signs to display outside before and after the event.

There are also fundraisers featuring John Kerry on Friday and Teresa Kerry on Saturday after the public event.

Please see the local John Kerry internet site: www. texansforkerry.com for info updates Friday and Saturday.

I found this over on kos, and if it is true, it is absolutely sickening...

With Tuesday’s attacks, Abu Musab Zarqawi, a Jordanian militant with ties to al-Qaida, is now blamed for more than 700 terrorist killings in Iraq.

But NBC News has learned that long before the war the Bush administration had several chances to wipe out his terrorist operation and perhaps kill Zarqawi himself — but never pulled the trigger.

In June 2002, U.S. officials say intelligence had revealed that Zarqawi and members of al-Qaida had set up a weapons lab at Kirma, in northern Iraq, producing deadly ricin and cyanide.

The Pentagon quickly drafted plans to attack the camp with cruise missiles and airstrikes and sent it to the White House, where, according to U.S. government sources, the plan was debated to death in the National Security Council.

“Here we had targets, we had opportunities, we had a country willing to support casualties, or risk casualties after 9/11 and we still didn’t do it,” said Michael O’Hanlon, military analyst with the Brookings Institution.

Four months later, intelligence showed Zarqawi was planning to use ricin in terrorist attacks in Europe.

The Pentagon drew up a second strike plan, and the White House again killed it. By then the administration had set its course for war with Iraq.

“People were more obsessed with developing the coalition to overthrow Saddam than to execute the president’s policy of preemption against terrorists,” according to terrorism expert and former National Security Council member Roger Cressey.

[snip]

Military officials insist their case for attacking Zarqawi’s operation was airtight, but the administration feared destroying the terrorist camp in Iraq could undercut its case for war against Saddam.

Any Democrat who is having any doubts about Kerry should only have to look at this type of dereliction of duty to know that Bush is far worse than Kerry ever could be.

My weekly Daily News Online column is up. You can view it here.