The Dead and the Undead...

She stood in the crowded room as her drove of minions stood around her...A huddling mass trying to draw closer to her aura of evil. The lights flashed against her fangs as her cruel lips curled into a grimace. It was meant to be a smile but it wouldn't reach her cold, lifeless eyes It was a leer- the leer of the undead before a feeding...

The above was not a scene from Buffy the Vampire Slayer- it was just Condi Rice in Iraq a day ago.

I stumbled across the riverbend blog. Very powerful stuff about the situation in Iraq, the Newsweek mess, the torture...

The opening paragraphs are clever, but the final paragraph is chilling:

By doing such things, this war is taken to another level- it is no longer a war against terror or terrorists- it is, quite simply, a war against Islam and even secular Muslims are being forced to take sides.

Two items of good news today:

1. Microsoft has reversed its reverse of its position on the Washington State gay-rights bill. Steve Balmer now says they will back it.

2. In a unanimous decision, the DC Circuit Court of Appeals tossed out the broadcast flag, the FCC rule that would have crippled digital television receivers starting July 1. Thanks EFF.