I Have A Huge Head, And Little Tiny Arms!

People depend on us, the blogging community, to synthesize the news stories of the day, to make the connections that they otherwise would not have made, whether for lack of time, lack of motivation, or lack of intellectual wherewithal. Taking that duty as seriously as I do, I present to you today the obvious upshot of these four recent stories:

Fearless Glow-In-The-Dark DINOSAUR ARMY!


You heard it here first, people. Don't act all surprised when you see the ripples in your Mojitos.

The Post Gins Up Some Rummy

Your friend and mine Donald Rumsfeld apparently used to fire off about 40-60 little memos a day, termed "snowflakes" for the way they drifted down upon the heads and outstretched tongues of the Department of Defense. After reading several of them, it would appear that the good Secretary was awfully concerned with how things were being perceived in the press, and felt he was often being depicted unfairly. He would, at times, attempt (with some success) to develop counter-narratives to combat the depictions at which he took umbrage.

Does that sound like a Secretary of Defense? Or does that sound like the type of thing that one would expect from, for instance, a blogger?