(tie) New England Clam Chowder / “It just felt so right, you know?” Vichyssoise “Lacking the daggers bequeathed Ambassador Thorn by Bugenhagen to slay the anti-Christ, what other choice did I have?” “Bush gets to declassify information on a whim.  And I just don’t think it right that he should have all the Executive powers and privileges—presidential elections and Constitutional powers or no.” Split Pea and Ham Chicken with Stars

From Time: Ahead of this week’s U.N. Security Council deadline for Iran to abandon its nuclear activities and an expected report from nuclear watchdog Mohamed ElBaradei, U.S. officials have been mapping a plan to hit the defiant regime. But the attacks will be financial, not military. The U.S. and its European allies will ask the council next month for a resolution that would pave the way for political and economic

As I noted yesterday, I believe the many in the mainstream press will, so long as the can manage it, attempt to “do their best to softpeddle some of the upcoming revelations [concerning the CIA leaks].  For instance, we’ll almost certainly see equivocation, red herrings, non sequiturs, and a number of other attempts to minimize the potential damage to the CIA leakers (and, potentially, it seems, US Senators Durbin and