Fliday

Because we are royalty we get special treatment. The best perk of our position is the four day work week. Nothing better. Try this at home. So as we write we are gearing up for the three day weekend and pondering. We don't know quite where to begin because we have far too many pots on the fire. Keeping up with the Libby trial is itself a full time job. Thankfully Firedoglake is doing that job terrifically!

Fred on Everything is also working hard at illumunating the dark secrets of life and most recently WAR.
(See: Fred: A True Son of Tzu).

Cheney gets defensive about being questioned about his HIGH PROFILE RIGHT WING ACTIVIST LESBIAN daughter's pregnancy.

More strange lights are reported promting the Air Force to finally admit to conducting weapons testing (gambling? in Casablanca? shocking!!!)

And last but not least... step away from the machine...new study indicates we Americans spend more time on the computer than with our families.

This last reminds us of a poem Queenie recited during our last visit in which the poet (Lewis Carroll) draws attention to the heathly benefits of conversation:

"You are old," said the youth, "and your jaws are too weak
For anything tougher than suet;
Yet you finished the goose, with the bones and the beak--
Pray, how did you manage to do it?"

"In my youth," said his father, "I took to the law,
And argued each case with my wife;
And the muscular strength, which it gave to my jaw,
Has lasted the rest of my life."