From the Whiskey Bar:
Dirty wars usually get lousy ratings.Which reminds me of a great line from the opening salvo of Get Your War On: "I can't wait until this war is over and there's no more terrorism!" "I know! Remember when the U.S. had a drug problem, and then we declared a War On Drugs, and now you can't buy drugs anymore? It'll be just like that!"
Which, of course, is why politicians don't like to fight them. There's never going to be a Victory Over Terrorism Day. Shrub's never going to be flown onto the deck of an aircraft carrier to celebrate the fall of Al Qaeda's capital. Self-important journalists in safari suits won't get to do standups in front of Osama bin Laden's looted palace. Think tank nerds won't get rich off consulting contracts with the Terrorism Occupation Authority. ["Meanwhile, Back at the Real War," billmon, 13 May 2003]
It's still early in the process, but going along with the frustration theme echoed earlier, there's likely to be a loud new ELW release coming up on RIVE in summer, continuing the theme found on the "one minute no silence, one minute suspended detonation" work on gdbodycount Although, I should learn from my own history and not say these things too early.
kuro5hin.org has a post on How to quit smoking cigarettes. Last time I almost quit, I lasted about five months. I've had intervals of non-smoking since (usually lasting one or two months - max). It's nearing time (but not quite time) to finally fully completely do it. Consider this another "leaving myself a note" posts.