Plane Crash
What did I just say about a plane crash? There was a bad one in Houston today. We heard about it at work this morning.  The weather is nasty. We speculated on what might have caused the trouble. It turns out, George Bush senior. was scheduled to take that plane on a business trip. That is why it was flying into Hobey Airport.  The plane clipped a light pole on the Beltway. Those things are quite high, but not so high you would expect planes to clip them. I wonder if it hit the pole after something else caused it to loose altitude. That was a corporate jet. I've heard those things are pretty reliable. I might be wrong. Here is another opinion. (from the Daily Brief) People have horrible opinions about this.

European opinion.
I've said many times that we should not take the Europeans opinions too seriously. Europeans are going to do what the Europeans do best, sit on their hands and bitch until America bails them out. Here is another opinion. (from Tim Blair)

Asshole
I hope this guy (the fan who threw the cup) gets seriously smacked by the legal system. I don't care who did what, players, who make millions, should never go after a fan. If the fan pulled a knife, or gun, I would say different. The guy threw a cup of ice. Look Mr. Multi-millionaire, (wait, not so much any more (hehe)) give it a rest and be the bigger man. You have a million impressionable kids worshiping your every move. Looser. I wish they would fire you and sue you for the hundreds of millions this may cost the NBA.

Ah, it is Us vs Them
Even a tolerant people will tern on the intolerant. When people who think they are the most welcoming folks in the world find themselves under siege, they will tern. They will defend their homes with the same ferocity as grisly will protect her young. It cannot be the people on the other side of the world in trouble. It cannot be people they do not know who are threatened. It must be them, their children, their way of life, their existence, their place in history, their legacy, and not one item less. They will tern, unless it is too late, unless they have been terned against.

Links
Some disturbing pictures from Falluja. (Thanks Cynthia)
A cool Flash experiment showing a battle in ASCII format.