As we danced came the news that the war was not won

* Unfuckingbelievable: Tanks deployed at a peaceful anti-war protest in Los Angeles. There is video at the link, and more information at Americablog.

* Mad Kane has posted a limerick for Bush's nominee for Attorney General, Alberto Gonzales. As she says: "Such a sterling pick deserves a limerick:"

The Geneva Conventions are quaint,
Said Gonzales. A scholar, he ain't.
But he's Dub's nominee
For the post of AG,
Where no doubt he will rule sans restraint.

* Link to recent David Berman poem published in the October Believer.