My friend Candace (she’s interviewed here) reports that the Supreme Court of the United States has accepted her original petition for habeas corpus on behalf of her client Abdul Hamid Al-Ghizzawi; the petition itself may be found here. Candace was nice enough to let me make some editorial suggestions with respect to this petition, some of which actually made it in there; hence, I take more than a rooting interest in this particular case. We’ve been in legal never-never land for so long that it’s often hard to remember those naiive days when many of us actually believed that the...

Today marks 16 years of happily wedded bliss for Mrs. TD and I (though some in the Bush Administration question the validity of our marriage based on its venue of origin). And a hearty Mazel Tov and happy B’nai Mitzvot to TD Niece and Nephew.

In “Operation Deja Vu All Over Again”, misguided American forces mistakenly believed that the no longer relevant (if they ever were) Osama bin Laden and Ayman Al-Zawahiri (didn’t we get him back in Iraq?) were having a big pre-Ramadan Qaeda-con-fab at… wait for it… the Tora Bora caves in Afghanistan. Unbelievably, our military ordered an attack! Fortunately, the misguided plan to remove the number one excuse for why we are in Iraq (and let’s face it, as Rush would say, any service member who questions our mission or particularly wishes it to ever end is a “phony soldier”– and probably...

I was actually kind of proud of dear old alma mater for having more cojones than Mike Bloomberg (himself a Hopkins grad and Hahvahd MBA); the Lord Mayor decided to invoke bullsh*t “security concerns” to deny Iranian wildman president Mahmoud Ahmadinejad an opportunity to lay a wreath at Ground Zero… I mean, let’s face it… the last thing this country, or this city needs, is even the remote possibility of coming to understanding and reconciliation with people we disagree with, especially when our political overlords and the punditocracy need bogeymen. I guess we saw how well that sort of thing...

Taking time out from its busy schedule of not providing leave or relief for overtaxed troops, not cutting funding for the Iraq war, not providing health insurance for children, not addressing the sub-prime mortgage crisis, and so forth, etc., etc. the Senate took some time yesterday to address the most burning and important issue of our day: condemning Moveon.Org. The 72-25 vote meant that around half the Democrats joined in the ritual jumping-on-board-with-Bush-and-Cheney’s-talking-points. (To use “feckless” to describe these “Democratic” senators, some of whom owe their jobs to MoveOn’s help, would be a disservice to feckless people; but I digress…...

The talking dog commenced posting exactly six years ago today, making it one of the oldest still extant blogs. Indeed, it is so old that the term “blog” was not in vogue at its commencement. Discuss.

The only reaction that I find even remotely appropriate to the news that O.J. Simpson has been arrested in connection with armed robberies in Las Vegas is, in internet parlance, to LMAO. Simpson, as you will recall acquitted for the murders of his ex-wife Nicole Brown Simpson and Ron Goldman, though found civilly liable for them by a different jury, is already in the news these days because of his “hypothetical” tell-all book (“If I did it” to which the Goldman family has acceded by judgment of a bankruptcy judge and to which they have called it “If I did...

TTD goes Drudge now… let me repeat a rumor fed to me by a credible source that in turn relies on another credible source, which tells me that a certain GOP Presidential frontrunner not currently married to his first wife… (let’s see who that might be… oh wait… it’s any one of them except Romney!)… is cheating on his current wife with a new 32 year old girlfriend. As Drudge himself might say… developing.

And so we come to the 6th anniversary of 11 September 2001, now called “Patriot Day” on some calendars, a day in which every level of our government let us down, and many of us managed to save ourselves. While some whose loved ones paid the ultimate price for our government letting us down became millionaires by accepting the government’s (and airline industry’s) hush money, and went on to sing the praises of their perverse new benefactors (such as St. Rudy of Giuliani, or of course, the President), others were somewhat outspoken in their outrage… and drew the wrath of...

I was kind of amused to pick up a calendar in my office and see that, on successive days next week, on Tuesday, Wednesday and Thursday, the holidays listed were [the Madison Avenue moniker for 9-11] “Patriot Day” followed by Ramadan and Rosh Hashanah… but that string of big religious holidays will be preceded by an even bigger faith-based initiative, the formal “Reading of Karl Rove’s Talking Points by General David Petraeus” on Monday. Bruce the Veep sends us this incredible polling data showing that the American people already expect Gen. Petraeus to lie, by a 53-39 margin. And yet,...