“Sandee” the escort:  “Listen, pal.  Just because your wee little staffer didn’t, y’know—stand up to vote, doesn’t mean I ‘exaggerated’ my claims or ‘lied’ about the effectiveness of my services.  ”Jesus.  Don’t you people take responsibility for anything…?”*

For those of you interested, Glenn Greenwald has responded to my long post yesterday on patriotism and the Democratic attack on the Bush administration.  I don’t have time today to go through his argument at any length, so I’ll just respond briefly. 1) Greenwald continues to argue that neither Phase I of the Roberts investigation nor the Robb-Silberman investigation proves Bushco didn’t lie (as Howard Dean is publically asserting) or

Via WVLT: The atheist who’s spent years trying to ban recitation of the Pledge of Allegiance in public schools says he’ll file a new lawsuit this week. Michael Newdow says he’ll ask a federal court to order removal of the national motto “In God We Trust” from U-S coins and currency. He says it violates the religious rights of atheists who belong to his “First Amendment Church of True Science.”

From the Independent UK: The New York Times has published allegations that Iran is attempting to build a nuclear warhead. The claims come less than two weeks before a decision by the UN nuclear watchdog on whether to report Tehran to the Security Council over its suspected weapons programme. An Iranian foreign ministry spokesman dismissed the report as an attempt to step up pressure on Tehran before the International Atomic