Weekend Odds and Ends

Please don't suck tonight, 'Friday Night Lights'. Thanks. Here's the news...

Regarding the wiretapping bill, President Bush stomps his feet and demands "retroactive immunity to U.S. telecommunications companies that helped conduct electronic surveillance without court orders"... which seems to dumb ol' me an admission of guilt!

And Alberto Gonzales, fearing the justice that he denied to so many, lawyers up.

Upset over a U.S. House vote branding the WWI-era "killings of Armenians by Ottoman Turks genocide", Turkey has recalled its ambassador for the moment. Oh, and for genuinely unrelated reasons, they might invade northern Iraq! What a mess!

The U.S. Marines, meanwhile, want out of Iraq... and into Afghanistan. Afghani-what?

Jon Stewart and Lynne Cheney have a friendly chat. The second half is good stuff.

Finally, I briefly mentioned this on Tuesday, but the swiftboating of a 12-year-old-- who delivered a Democratic radio address on S-CHIP-- by prominent right-wingers (ie. not random fringe folk) deserves further mentioning... it perfectly illustrates the growing insanity of the GOP base. No liberal/Democrat would've even thought of stalking a family, harassing neighbors, posting vicious lies about a child and his family just because he/she had advocated for a GOP issue. It's sociopathic. Updates- here, here, and here (bonus, if anyone needs further convincing that Michelle Malkin is a horrible person... read this).