I’m taking the day off from political commentary—I have yogurt to buy and a child to play with—but as a gesture of good will, I’ll point you political junkies in the direction of a number of interesting posts: 1) Tigerhawk notes: Iran has threatened to retaliate against Israel if the United States attacks Iran.  Going out on a limb with my hawkish friends, may I suggest that perhaps that it

“If you haven’t yet heard, Billy, I’m all set to take my campaign of OUTRAGE over this illegal war global!  And I have important allies helping me this time, too—members of EU’s parliament, for instance, are sponsering my Germany trip, where I’ll set up Camp Casey Deutch and point out—with colorful signs and the joyful tambourine music of protest—that Germany is Europe’s hub for wars in Iraq, Afghanistan and others

—Well, sadly, there can be no dancing today, if that’s what you mean.  Seems the little fella went and signed himself up for a Tae Kwon Do class in order to “take care of some business with a certain gekko who, for such a green little bitch, was getting a bit too mouthy.” Which, in and of itself, isn’t the problem.  Instead, the stumbling block here seems to be that