Weekend Odds and Ends

An insane amount of news today and I'm too tired to handle it. Here's a quick roundup...

Despite some token opposition, Michael Mukasey is confirmed as the new Attorney General.

Despite a media-touted lull in violence, polling shows more and more Americans want Congress to be aggressive in ending the war. House leaders responded with a sure-to-fail bill "that would spend $50 billion on the wars in Iraq and Afghanistan but require that President Bush start bringing troops home." Yea, good luck with that.

Meanwhile in Pakistan, democracy's return grows closer: "Pakistani police placed opposition leader Benazir Bhutto under house arrest Friday." (UPDATE- And now she's free. Thousands of other activists? Notsomuch.)

Bad news for a certain '08 candidate... Bernie Kerik was indicted on corruption charges.

U.S. officials have had to recall yet another kids' toy, this time because it contained "a chemical that, once metabolized, converts into the toxic 'date rape' drug GHB." Sweet! Deregulation is awesome.

Remember last month when the White House watered-down a CDC report on the impact(s) of climate change? The White House is blocking inquiries into that, citing... executive privilege. Climate denial = national security issue?

Finally, the planned border fence... a endless parade of mass stupidity.