Get a shovel -- he's in there somewhere
-Halliburton bugs out of Iran-
The oil field services company that gave us Dick Cheney, Halliburton, has announced that they'll no longer do biz in Iran. Good for them. And about time -- it's been illegal for american companies to do business with Iran since 1979. Golly, I wonder why they'd want to get out now? (NYT)
-"You can't handle the truth!"-
The good news: The Iowa House passed a bill barring teachers from lying to students in sex ed classes. The bad news: 40 legislators voted against it. The obvious news: No law exists to keep these 40 idiots from lying to their kids at home. (Des Moines Register)
-Does he know what that metaphor means?-
Blogger Ed Morrisey: I asked the Senator whether Moqtada al-Sadr’s new orders for the Mahdi Army to attack American forces could cause a collapse of the Maliki government. McCain thinks Sadr is mostly bluffing; he waited too long and has not made a personal appearance for too long, and a defeat at the hands of the American and Iraqi forces would finish him. Joking that he was “digging for the pony here,” he predicted that Sadr would back down as he has in the past rather than take that big of a gamble.
A very old joke: Parents find a kid digging in an old pile of manure and ask him what he's doing. "Finding a new pet. With this much horseshit," the kid says, "There has to be a pony!" (Think Progress)
