Folks,

Maybe its because my feet are soaking wet from walking through all this slush, or perhaps it's because I had to come to work this morning after convincing myself I would get a snow day, but I'm cranky.

And so, in order to not lose my hard-won cool at the office, I will vent my crankiness on this weekend's top news story - THE CAPTURE OF SADDAM!!!!!

I'm glad that Saddam will be going to jail for his years of persecution of his people and his untold crimes against humanity. However, in the grand scheme of things, WHO THE FUCK CARES? I mean, it constantly amazes me how much of an appetite for spin the American people have. We are like the abnoxious ADD kid in class and distorted images of ourselves are our ritalin.

The Saddam capture and the hoopla and back slapping surrounding it has allowed us to forget one very major fact - to get to this point the United States leadership tricked the American people into believing there was an imminent nuclear threat from Iraq, invaded a sovereign nation to the tune of hundreds of American and thousands of Iraqi lives and added further fuel to the fire of anti-Americanism in the Middle East. Sweet.

When I first heard the news I was reminded of a Chris Rock routine about people who brag about things they really shouldn't, like the guy who walks around shouting out "I take care of my kids". Then (in Chris Rock voice) "You're supposed to take of your kids!! You don't get no medal for that!" I just imagine George Bush walking around like "Yes sir, I got him. Go me." To which (again in Chris Rock voice) "Ya didn't need to go get him, ya damn fool!"

My feet are wet.