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Must resist beautiful camera

I’ve been pretty happy with my cam­eras, a Nikon D50 and a Sony DSC-T7, but the new Sony DSC-T200 com­bines the best qual­i­ties of both a “thing of beauty” and a “joy forever.” 8.1 megapix­els, 5x opti­cal zoom as well as lens-​based image-​stabilization. And it’s so pretty!

Thank good­ness I’m broke or I’d really be in trouble!

A night out with a pretty girl and a fat guy

My wife and I went out Friday night to Johns Hopkins’ Shriver Hall to hear polit­i­cal activist, doc­u­men­tary film­maker and best-​selling author, Michael Moore. About 5,000 people showed up which is 4,000 more than the little audi­to­rium could hold, so Michael spent the first half hour talk­ing to folks out on the lawn while the early arrivers like us sat watch­ing clips from TV Nation and The Awful Truth.

When Mike finally came out, he gave a pretty good pre­sen­ta­tion: a read­ing from his book, a test to see whether Amer­i­cans knew who the prime min­is­ter of Canada is (not Jean Pou­tine), and some Q&A. Kellie and I bought a copy of his latest book, Dude, Where’s My Coun­try but the line to get auto­graphs was really long, so we went home. A pretty good night, all things con­sid­ered, and com­pletely free since we neglected to stop for dinner.

Maybe they should ask Uday and Qusay - oh wait, never mind

Mother Jones has a good piece on the hunt for WMD in Iraq cob­bled together from the wire ser­vices. It seems that while David Kay and his 1,200 inspec­tors haven’t actu­ally found any­thing incrim­i­nat­ing, they want another $600 mil­lion to look for it. Am I the only one who would rather see that money going to restore power in Bagh­dad or fight malaria or something?

[The better ques­tion is what I'm doing read­ing such an incred­i­bly lib­eral rag. Well, I fig­ured I should check up on my old favorite mag­a­zine, since I'm read­ing Eric Alterman's What Lib­eral Media? The Truth about BIAS and the News, gen­er­ously loaned to me by my loving father. I'm, of course, in total agree­ment with Eric, but then again, much like some moronic ditto-​head read­ing Lim­baugh's latest Vicodin-​inspired rant, I'm pre­dis­posed to do so. I bought a copy of MoJo the other night and started check­ing their web page, only to find out that my par­ents are giving me a sub­scrip­tion to Newsweek, or as my idiot co-​worker says, "New-​Speak ha ha ha". Did I men­tion that my parent's are generous?]

Per­son­ally, I’ve really been hoping that they’d find some banned weapons in Iraq. Call me naive, but I really like to have faith in my lead­ers, even when they’re weasels. Call me crazy, but I like to look for the best in Shrub­bery. Err, people. I sup­pose Saddam’s sons would have known where some of that stuff was, but with the guns blaz­ing, “bring ‘em on” men­tal­ity of the pres­i­dent, there’s no point in asking them anymore.

What do you all think? Are there hidden weapons? Will we ever find them? And if you’ve got a Ouija board, ask the Hus­sein boys for me.