Odds and Ends

It's Thursday morning, do you know where your children are? Here's the news...

President Bush was all 'blah blah human rights' at the U.N., but McClatchy newspapers reminds us that "Bush didn't mention the U.S. prisons in Afghanistan or at Abu Ghraib and Guantanamo Bay, the U.S. practice of holding detainees for years without legal charges or access to lawyers, or the CIA's 'rendition' kidnappings of suspects abroad, all issues of concern to human rights activists around the world." Pwned.

The United Auto Workers and GM have reached an agreement, ending the worker strike.

Keith Olbermann continues to explores the nexus between politics and terror (see previous reports- here and here)... this time in regards to what role hyped-up terror warnings played in browbeating Congress into passing the gutting-FISA warrantless wiretapping bill this past August. Fear is an amazing thing, isn't it?

This week marked the 50th anniversary of the racial integration at a public high school in Little Rock, Arkansas. This event was a key moment in the civil rights movement.

A supporter of Rudy Guiliani is throwing a fundraising party. The asked-for amount? $9.11, of course. The Guiliani campaign says the choice of amount is regrettable; I'm sure they can't imagine where his supporters would get the idea. Neither can I.

Finally, the Democrats had a lively debate last night. Livebloggings- here, here, and here.