Plato and I took good walk this morning at Mill River. Plato was leaping with excitement when we arrived -- he can't understand why we don't go to Mill River every morning. Hardly anyone else was there -- we saw only one other dog and encountered a couple of groups of people. As we approached the first group, I told Plato not to be a pest so he wouldn't slime them. After I was past, a man in the group asked what language I was speaking. I replied, truthfully, that I was just speaking English. Only after I walked away, did I realize he might have been referring to 
my shirt. A missed chance to mention Esperanto. Oh, well.
Last week, Lucy mentioned that she had been hankering after some good chicken soup like she likes to make. I encouraged her to make some this weekend, while it wasn't going to be so hot. Yesterday we bought a chicken at Atkins and this morning Lucy has made a good pot of soup. Mmmm! There's always something special about Mom's chicken soup.
Jane Harmon, investigating the prewar intelligence about iraq says
When discussing Iraq's WMD, administration officials rarely included the caveats and qualifiers attached to the intelligence committee's judgments
George Bush reminds me a lot of a kid I knew in junior high -- Let's call him Joe. Joe had questionable friends and wasn't very smart. His friends would tell him that Jim, or whoever didn't like that week, had said something bad about him
"Hey, Joe! Jim said you were stupid!"
Joe would narrow his close-set eyes and set off to find Jim to settle the score. Never mind whether or not Jim had actually said anything or not. Joe's friends just enjoyed the entertainment of having such an easy mark. Just like George Bush, there was no convincing Joe that his friends were misleading him.
What I can't figure out is whether or not George really believed the things he said or whether he was laughing at us all, when he said things like "intelligence gathered by this and other governments leaves no doubt that the Iraq regime continues to possess and conceal some of the most lethal weapons ever devised". At least one thing is clear now: the intelligence did leave doubts and the only question left is what George was thinking, if anything.