In these times, we can't ignore anything

Richard Clarke on the Daily Show tonight (reruns at various intervals through tomorrow evening if you don’t read this today). And Karen Hughes tomorrow. I think we should put pressure on the White House until Condi Rice is a guest there. By the way, Jon Stewart signed a new long-term contract to continue the show, which is becoming weirdly popular for politicians, although Stewart isn’t a great interviewer of the powerful. In one of the more bizarre moves of broadcast journalism, MSNBC a couple of weeks ago threatened not to let Desmund Tutu on their channel if he also did the Daily Show.

An American Airlines flight from Florida to Texas was searched because of a call from a psychic. Said the local Transportation Security Administration director, “in these times, we can't ignore anything.”

The George Bush Conspiracy Generator.

The Onion has a headline today, “Wheelchair-Bound Student Would Have Preferred To Sit Out Pep Rally.” Possibly stolen from a Peter Ustinov obit: in WW2, he asked to join the tank corps, because he preferred to go into battle sitting down.

I saw Ustinov on stage once, in London, starring in one of his own plays.

Just what Berlin needed: talking garbage cans.

The nationalist lunatics are back in charge of the asylum that is Serbia. The government has decided to pay a salary to Milosevic and the other war crimes defendants; also legal expenses and so on.

Speaking of genocide, documents just released under the FOIA show that in 1994 Clinton was aware that one was being planned and under way in Rwanda, that he had accurate intelligence about exactly what was going in as 800,000 died while he did nothing, although he has always claimed ignorance. Wonder what the American papers will say about this?