There are plenty of reasons to despise “Blue Dog” Democrats. But now one of these monsters – Arkansas Congresscritter Marion Berry (that’s Berry, not Barry) – has gone too far. On Monday evening, HR 562 passed 359-1. That’s right, 146 Republicans joined 213 Democrats in passing this most vital resolution. The one “nay” vote? Marion Berry. It’s high time we drove deranged Blue Dogs like this out of our government. If you live in Arkansas, I urge you to run against Barry in the next AR 1st primary.

The NY Times says Hamid Karzai’s brother – Ahmed Wali Karzai – is on the CIA payroll (which supplements his income from the opium trade). The CIA denies it, though, and they wouldn’t lie.

A cable on the Bay Bridge in San Fran snapped yesterday afternoon, prompting the closing of the bridge for repairs for at least 24 hours. Should make life pretty miserable for commuters in the area this morning (hope you don’t need to go that way, Vernon). It’s sad, but the way things have gotten in this country, I don’t know that I’d trust any bridge these days.

A car bomb in a Pakistani marketplace has killed at least 90 people (mostly women).

Otherwise, not much going in in the world. Joe Lieberman’s still an asshole trying to get somebody to pay attention to him. In other non-news, those two pilots have had their licenses lifted (I mean, really, you can screw off all you want, but you really ought to keep an eye on all those blinky lights and dially things in the cockpit – plus pay attention to the radio; they might need to tell you that you’re about to hit another plane or something). You have to wonder just what the hell these people are up to when they’re supposed to be driving the bus.

So, just to reiterate: if you have to leave the house today, stay off airplanes and bridges (and away from CT “Independents,” AR Blue Dogs, and Pakistani marketplaces).