I haven’t blogged for a few days. I’ve been woolgathering . Has to be done. And I’ve been feeling a bit burned out and awash in all the crap that’s been going down. Sensory overload, you know? Three school shootings in less than that many weeks. How can anyone be so crazy as to be willing to shoot children, and still be sane enough to drive to a school? I guess I don’t understand insanity, not being a sputtering nutjob myself. But it seems like if you were that frijoles en la cabeza, you wouldn’t be able to tell a road from a wombat, a car from a crookneck squash.

Tonight I’m watching Tim Russert interview Bob Woodward , about the latter’s new book . He’s pointing out that Rumsfeld knew, in the fall of 2003, that there were a thousand attacks a month by the insurgency in Iraq. Rumsfeld ordered the report buried, because he was in denial. Now the country is in all out civil war, and we have lost the battle for the hearts and minds of Iraq. In terms of every excuse – including establishment of democracy – that the Bush administration has given at various times for bringing this hell on that country, America has lost the war altogether.

So, chaos over there and chaos over here, and the president, the vice president, and the secretary of defense are asleep in their comfy beds. I guess I’ll tuck in too.