Random links and musings:

Christie Todd Whitman, former Bush-appointed head of the EPA (and, prior to that, governor of America's armpit, AKA the United Chemical Plants of New Jersey), is refusing to testify in front of a House subcommittee investigating the federal response to 9/11. Specifically, they want to know what possessed her to declare the air surrounding Ground Zero to be "safe" enough that cleanup workers did not need any special protections. Many of these cleanup workers are now coming down with illnesses clearly and directly linked to the air at Ground Zero.

In fact, six of these workers are highlighted in Michael Moore's upcoming film, "Sicko," about the state of America's health care system. Moore took them to Cuba to highlight the difference between their health care system and ours. The Bush administration is looking to sue him for going to Cuba; Moore is investigating their investigation (go go FOIA requests).

The nominee to be the head of the Consumer Product Safety Commission is... Michael Baroody! Don't know who he is? Oh, he was only the senior lobbyist for the National Association of Manufacturers! Just another case of the well-paid inmates running the asylum!

According to that asshat Glenn Beck, the Democrats' plan for redeploying troops in Iraq is tantamount to saying that the US is "weak and pathetic... losers and, you know, girl-fighters." Most of the women I know could easily kick his ass without breaking a sweat. Sometimes, I wonder what kind of problem Beck has with women... and then I realize that he probably wishes he was one.