“But when one declares a war that produced Hiroshima and the Holocaust a ‘Good War,’ it raises a question: good for whom?”

I won’t find out just how fucked up the final season of The Wire is until it’s on DVD. So I guess now I have several months to worry about how many sharks my favorite TV show decided to jump over. Sounds like maybe a few, though.

Top 87 bad predictions about the future.

If the decline or rise of fascism and authoritarianism in your system of government depends on electing the right or wrong politicians, your system of government is already fucked even before the wrong politicians take power.

The city of Beech Grove is supposedly getting city-wide wireless internet service by the end of this year. How much it will cost, how fast it will be, what kind of security it will use — the answers to all these questions remain closely guarded secrets. What we do know, though, is that the police and fire departments will get their own special wifi network for, among other uses, a city-wide network of surveillance cameras.

My new favorite movie.

Hillary Clinton wants us to know that she is opposed to letting President Bush take any military action against Iran without full Congressional approval. What difference does it make?

We thought Radiohead had become a glorious hero of the post-copyright revolution, but it turns out it’s just a regular old band that wants you to buy their CD.

Scott Pelley interviews Mahmoud Ahmadinejad on 60 Minutes.

Bush: “I’m like a lot of Americans that say, ‘Well, if [the fake WMD intelligence] wasn’t right in Iraq, how do you know it’s right in Iran.’” Bush is always good for a chuckle.

On Wednesday, Rice and the public relations chief for the Bush administration, Karen Hughes, held a “Private Sector Summit on Public Diplomacy.” Sponsored by the State Department and the Public Relations Coalition, the summit was held with 150 top public relations professionals and State Department officials “to identify clear action steps the private sector can take to support U.S. public diplomacy.”

Gonzales and Specter debate Constitutional right of habeas corpus. I think Gonzales is trying to say the Constitution prohibits suspending the right of habeas corpus for all people but doesn’t prohibit suspending it for a subset of all people. Interpret the Constitution to minimize liberty. Evil.

Nancy Boyda (D-KS) responds to serious debate about escalation in Iraq with snark.

From Kurt Vonnegut’s A Man without a Country: “True enough, there are such things as laughless jokes, what Freud called gallows humor. There are real-life situations so hopeless that no relief is imaginable.”

Tony Snow mixes up his parts of speech.