There are a lot of politics on this page. For now.

So I’m listening to the Senate Judiciary Committee’s Hearings on reading my goddamn mail the president’s domestic surveillance program, and Attorney General Alberto Gonzales is being asked to make a case for its legality. In doing so, the attorney general keeps referencing the fact that George Washington– the Founding Father Himself– had all correspondence to the British intercepted, read, and copied on its way through the mail. He’s not wrong, but here’s something I thought might be worth mentioning: when Washington was doing that, the Constitution did not exist. So General Woodteeth’s s*** isn’t really part of my problem right now.

Gonzales’ case: laws passed in 2001 give the president authority to take whatever measures are necessary to wage the War on Terror for as long as the nation is at war.

So… how do you know when that war is over, exactly? We’re not fighting a country that can surrender or be conquered; it’s a war against Random Angry People. If we obliterate al Qaeda, and a week later the remnants form Auntie Nell’s Jihad and Quilting Society, is that a new war or the same war?

I don’t care what you say: I admire our nation’s legislators. Specifically, I admire their inhuman ability to not lunge across the podium, screaming, “God dammit, it’s a yes-or-no f***ing question!” and just shake and shake and shake witnesses by the collar.