It's tough coping with the spin, and our reporters and elected officials are getting spun like tops by our very politicized generals. Here are the points of view I use to try to keep my own head on straight.

First, if we arm Sunnis and encourage them to create their own militias, police forces, etc., as apparently our current general-in-charge is doing, then we are following the Baker-Hamilton report, aligning ourselves with the Saudis, trying to make up for the alleged mistake in disbanding Saddam's army, adhering to the perspective of the current DOD Secretary (and not Rumsfeld's). This tactic isn't a strategy; it is just a means to find, at last, a faction we can support.

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So Tucker Carlson admitted on national television that he and a friend assaulted a person he took to be gay. This drew laughs on MSNBC, and later much ribald humor at CNN.

Later Mr. Carlson issued a statement taking issue with his admission. Presumably, still later he will punch himself in the nose, or bang his own head against the wall, until he wrests the truth out of himself.

But why the laughter?