Phone solicitation!

What is it with the inability of phone solicitors to deliver their lines with some sort of emotion? I've received two calls so far from Obama For America, and while I'm sure the operators are volunteers who are convinced of the mission of the campaign, they don't convey it to me! What they are able to convey is that they've been sitting next to the phone too long. (They also thanked me for my donation in February. What donation?)

At any rate, I just get annoyed by donation calls, being newly out of college and not particularly affluent, and I wish they weren't so necessary. Can't say they haven't been effective despite it all, though.

Most... ridiculous... writing... ever

Well, not quite, but check out this blogger on conservative National Review, about the British soldiers.

Choice quote:
"In any case, there was no evidence of torture or mistreatment in any of the filmed cases I have seen. They look just fine. You can't fake that."

Wonderful. Also, via Daily Kos, check out the article from The Guardian which explains how Blair turned down flat American offers to use military ops to pressure the Iranians.

What lies beyond the northern border

Word is that the Washington Post will close its Toronto bureau. In and of itself, not that big of a story, except that there will be no more American newspaper correspondents based in Canada. At all. Yes, there's been a lot of cost-cutting at paper media, but there can't be just one correspondent to our north?

Of course, since Canada is the same as the U.S. anyway... just change the tagline from "Los Angeles" to "Toronto" and it'll sound right, won't it?

Medal of Honor goal almost reached!

The Seattle P-I reports that fundraising is almost done for the memorial to honor UW's Medal of Honor recipients.

Congratulations are due to those who have been behind this effort from the beginning. Medal of Honor winners have done a great service to their country and represent the UW showing the same courage, selflessness and model character we would desire of all alumni.

I had a longer post witten, but really, no need to dredge up past controversies...