And no one likes a complainer in line at Whole Foods. "The line's so long. It moves so slow. We're all gonna have to start eating all this food. What a system they have. Blah blah blah."

You know what I think about waiting in line at Whole Foods? How lucky I am that I can be standing here in line at Whole Foods. How the biggest problem I happen to have right now is how slow this line is moving.

Life's way too short, and too fragile, to be complaining about waiting in line. One day, you might not be so lucky.

OK, I'm done complaining.

The Serious Plan, from the DLC, says, first, Democrats "rightly want to force a new direction, but they’re not going to get it if the only option they offer is immediate withdrawal."

But these 12 former Army captains say, short of a draft, "our best option is to leave Iraq immediately." Huh? How could that be?

Further down:

The key to a new course is to forge a bipartisan agreement in support of a small sustainable military presence in Iraq for the foreseeable future...

Doubly bad. First, our key to getting out of Iraq is staying in Iraq for the foreseeable future!

Second, forging bipartisan agreements -- but how? They don't say!!! Unless you agree that Sens Lugar and Warner can be "brought along."

Have they ever? Isn't that the Serious Thinker's centrist fantasy?

Is this really necessary? From today's AP article on the Mukasey hearing:

"I would try to talk him out of it or leave," Mukasey replied, his American flag lapel pin mirroring Specter's. [emphasis mine]

The reporting and/or editors are perhaps chalking this up to the gritty kind of detail that makes a story. A scene-setting of sorts, enriching the reader with more than just the five W's.

But in the obvious light of the Obama lapel pin "controversy," this statement seems to be more than just an aside.

It seems like a swipe.

Now, I don't want to fall into the "media bias" trap, because I think that's a crock. Usually, these kinds of things that seem like bias against liberals are really due to the economic realities of journalism today: Hillary's "cackle" is going to be a story that everyone's going to talk about for 24 to 48 hours, and everyone wants some eyeballs for the ratings book.

But what explains the lapel pin comment here? Were they the only two wearing pins? (Hard to believe...) Was it an attempt to subliminally place these two on the "same side"?

It seems in this case, the most obvious explanation is an ode to the recent flag pin news ("news"), but we all know the context of that, and, no doubt, the reporter did, too.

How is that not taken as a swipe at Obama?

Ezra Klein points us over to the actual words of an actual leftist.

And guess what? I disagree!!! Well, other than the real root cause of climate change being the capitalist industrial system itself.

But, other than that, I disagree!!!