Been a Weird Week

It's strange, reading (I gots no TeeVee) the right-wing reactions to the death of Bin Laden, and the attempts to delegitimize the President, and to give credit to the Bush Maladministration. I don't think characterizing the death of Bin Laden an "assassination" is a good construction- it gives the creep a legitimacy that he should never have. Also, the proscription on assassination (it's okay to kill a head of state with a MOAB, but not a piano wire), besides being routinely ignored, is really meant as a proscription on asymmetric warfare- assassination is much more feasible for smaller states than a successful military campaign. So, it wasn't an assassination, it was an execution (without trial, of course), or a termination... Bin Laden doesn't rate the term "assassination".

I'll put up a more substantial post tomorrow. On Wednesday, I'll be heading down to Virginia for a few days, so I'll try to put up a barn-burner before kicking off for a few days. I also have to consider replacing the antiquated laptop- she's tired, I'm running an old browser, and I'm having power supply "issues" (cord is somewhat whacked, so I have to hold the adapter to the "port" on back of the laptop). Gotta shop around...