Unless I missed a memo again, we here at Moue have no plans to cover the President’s farewell to the nation tonight. In a similar vein, we also have no plans to claw out our own eyeballs, shove bamboo splinters under our fingernails, wolf down shards of broken glass, gargle lava, listen to any Genesis album recorded after 1980, or watch any movie starring both Patrick Swayze and Charlie Sheen. That is, unless I missed yet another memo.

The other day in the Washington Post, Dan Froomkin provided us all with a one-stop catalog of, um, catalogs of the failures of the Bush presidency, page after page of quotes from politicos and pundits near and far, the vast majority incredulous about just what has been going on for the last eight years. For the time-pressed, he gives us the Reader’s Digest version early on:
He took the nation to a war of choice under false pretenses — and left troops in harm’s way on two fields of battle. He …

One of the hallmarks of the soon-to-be-over Bush administration has been the tendency to appoint people as heads of an agency who actually think that the agency shouldn’t exist, and want to destroy it.  Knowing that, the reports coming out about the Voting Rights division at DOJ shouldn’t be too shocking.  And yet somehow, they are.
Via TPM:
In that incident in August 2004, Voting Section Chief John Tanner sent an e-mail to Schlozman asking Schlozman to bring coffee for him to a meeting both were scheduled to attend. Schlozman replied asking …

Via Reuters:
The Senate Foreign Relations Committee voted 16-1 in favor of the appointment, clearing a key hurdle to her appointment as the top U.S. diplomat.
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Sen. David Vitter, a Louisiana Republican who this week questioned Clinton about her husband’s raising of foreign funds for his charity, was the sole negative vote.
Vitter, Vitter… Where have I heard that name before?
Now then, I’m not saying that patronizing a prostitute (and I won’t even mention the diaper rumor – whoops, looks like I just did) and getting caught up in a scandal involving said …

Moody scenes, dramatic lighting and square prints!  I love me some square prints.  Additionally, if you shoot her a convo, Irene Suchoki will talk to you about either matting the print for a more conventional size or framing it in a square frame for you.

the swing set, 8″ x 8″ Fine Art Print