At the end of the State of the Union Address tonight I was left saying, “That’s it?!”
Taking out all the unnecessary applause, it was what, 15 minutes?
And where were the hecklers?

“The devil came here yesterday,” Chavez said, referring to Bush’s address at the UN assembly on Tuesday.
“He came here talking as if he were the owner of the world.”
[Aljazeera.net: Chavez calls Bush 'the devil']
Well, Bush does talk to God, after all.

After a shower, The Partner starts his day with a dose of the NBC Nightly News Netcast with Brian Williams while eating breakfast. His rationale is that this is the sort of stuff average Americans watch so it’s best for us to know what they’re exposing themselves to. I’m still lazily laying about [...]