A centrist, like Joe Lieberman
-Osama the moderate-
A newly released audio tape by the Blofeld of global terrorism, Osama bin Laden, demonstrates a change in message. Bin Laden said that some insurgents in Iraq should admit to "mistakes" and to "beware of division."
"I advise myself, Muslims in general and brothers in al Qaeda everywhere to avoid extremism among men and groups," he says. So it's not the terrorism that's so bad, it's that extremist terrorism. Nice to know that there's someone out there willing to embrace moderate, middle-of-the-road terrorism. You know, the kind of terrorism that we can all agree on -- centrist, bipartisan terrorism.
"Everybody can make a mistake, but the best of them are those who admit their mistakes," he says. For those of you keeping track, that's one admission of mistakes for al Qaeda, none for the Bush administration. (AP)
-Fun with meaningless polling-
One candidate is moving up in the polls in the Democratic primary, passing Bill Richardson, Dennis Kucinich, Mike Gravel, and closing in on Joe Biden.
Comedy Central's icon of truthiness Stephen Colbert is currently polling at 2.3% nationally. Why is this meaningless? Colbert -- who running as both a Democrat and a Republican -- is only competing in one state, South Carolina, rendering national polling on the Colbert question pretty much useless.
Although also running as GOP, Colbert rates less than 1% among Republicans, who are well known for having no sense of humor. The fact that Colbert is a parody of right wing blowhards like Bill O'Reilly and Sean Hannity probably doesn't help any, either. Republicans are touchy that way. (Editor and Publisher)
-Headline of the day-
"Put Dumbledore back in the closet." Seriously. Author J.K. Rowling told an audience that she always thought of the popular character from her Harry Potter series as gay and people now have an opinion about this.
He's not real. Just thought someone ought to bring that up. (TIME)
