not that anyone cares

and not that there was a snowball's chance in hell that I was interested in Lieberman, but two other contenders just went out of the running and Edwards went up a few notches.

The field is getting smaller every day.

Howard Dean on Monday stood by his criticism of the war with Iraq, hailing the capture of Saddam Hussein but saying that his seizure had failed to make America safer and that the invasion of the former dictator's country was launched "in the wrong way at the wrong time."

Dean's statements before a public-affairs group in Los Angeles drew stinging rejoinders from rivals in the Democratic presidential contest, who have struggled to slow his momentum and hope his opposition to the war now will cause him more political harm than good.

Sen. Joe Lieberman of Connecticut suggested that the former Vermont governor had "climbed into his own spider hole of denial."

Sen. John F. Kerry of Massachusetts said Dean's comments showed he lacked the leadership skills and temperament to be president.

Rep. Richard A. Gephardt of Missouri assailed Dean for having faulted others Ñ such as himself, Kerry and Lieberman Ñ who backed the congressional resolution that authorized the invasion.

The back-and-forth came on a campaign day devoted to foreign policy, with both Dean and Sen. John Edwards of North Carolina delivering speeches calling for steps to fight international terrorism, mend fractured ties with U.S. allies and stem the international threat from weapons of mass destruction.

"We should be exercising every option we have to stop the spread of deadly weapons before war becomes our only option," Edwards said in a speech in Des Moines...

Congressmen, you really should be ashamed of yourselves.

the Mad social whirl

sigh.

I did dishes.