A retired Colonel stated on CNN this afternoon that the United States is conducting military operations in Iran right now. An article in October's Harper's also explains in detail what the White House seems to be planning, and it's terrifying. Their thoughts that Iran will suddenly be submissive to the U.S. if we bomb them enough is dangerously naive.
Andrew Sullivan posts a very important email written to him by a former soldier in Iraq. The loss of our global reputation for fairness, ever since the country's inception, may be forever poisoned by what we have done in the past six years, and what we'll do in the next two.
I made some Rachel Maddow Show iTunes art since the podcast doesn't come with any. Save the JPG and drop it into your box. Her show moved from mornings to 6-8pm ET today on Air America.
Gawker finally has a working map of the smells of the NYC subway. "Click, and the popup expands to reveal Zagat-style excerpts from actual reader reports."
