I've been adamant that I would continue to support and vote for JRE and the issues that I believe he best addressed, and I've said that I would vote for him today no matter what.  I went to the polling place to fill out my ballot and found that I just could not vote for John, not because I didn't want to-somehow I've been registered as a fu**ing gooper!  How the hell did that happen?  Did I register unknowingly when filling out some ballot measure?  Did I do it wanting to throw a monkey wrench in some gooper primary?  I don't think so, the last primary I voted in was the 04 election.

On the NY Times site an article by Mark Mazzetti indicates new information that the CIA destroyed tapes of interrogations because they feared that the tapes would provide evidence that could be used to document actions that would place the inflictors at legal risk.

The existence and subsequent destruction of the tapes is likely to reignite the debate over the use of severe interrogation techniques on terror suspects, and raises questions about whether C.I.A. officials withheld information from the courts and from the presidentially-appointed Sept. 11 commission about aspects of the program.

The agency of course claims that it acted legally, and that it was only trying to protect its officers and their families from retribution.  However:

The Economist opens its article on Democrats and the War with a picture of a button showing The Kiss.  In a rather condescending manner the article uses the Lamont campaign to paint a picture of the terrible dilemna of the Democratic party as they fail to march in lockstep.  Is there some new drummer playing somewhere?  Yes, indeed.

"Like Mr Dean, Mr Lamont did not so much start a campaign as stumble upon a network of angry people looking for someone to support. They communicate with like-minded souls online. They call themselves "netroots", ie, grassroots campaigners linked by the internet. There are a lot of them: their most popular meeting-place, a blog called the Daily Kos, attracts hundreds of writers and perhaps half a million readers a day.

They are the most disruptive force in Democratic politics today. Their aim is to transform the party by backing candidates who will "fight back" against Mr Bush. Mr Lamont is top of their list."