Secret Satan

Have you heard of the Devil's game of Secret Santa? Where you ask "Who's this from?" and get no answer!

Well, if you have heard of that game, listen to Karkis rock out about it.

It looks like there's still plenty of fun going on in Iraq.

Insurgent attacks have picked up again. Here's something I didn't know: Shiite's make up 60 percent of the population, Sunnis 20 percent. I guess Kurds round out the rest of the ethnic spread. That's an interesting breakdown. It makes me wonder how a group with 20 percent of the population could stay in power for so long.

I saw in yesterday's news where Colin Powell gave carefully worded support of Bush's penchant for warrantless wiretaps. Powell posited how easy it would have been to get warrants on terror-related investigations, and that the government should be able to monitor those transmissions. My take is that it wasn't just "war on terror" related transmissions they were monitoring. Even though Powell said it was easy to get warrants, apparently the federal surveillance court was being too difficult for Bush.

Apparently, lacking "probable cause" was too burdensome for the Bush administration.

Tuesday

Well, this is the second non-family related day of my vacation. Work seems miles away, right now, but the weekend, albeit full of pleasant moment, was balanced out with a little anger-inducing moments of dysfunctional bliss.

I got some shopping done with taogrl on Monday, some goofing off, some drum practice, some house cleaning. Theoretically, I could spend the whole week slaving away at home organization projects, but that doesn't appeal.

Today I started reading "Wicked" by Gregory Mcguire. I'll get more into that later on tonight. More work on the drums is in store, as well.

I'm watching the seasons of Battlestar Galactica, too. Starting with the mini-series. I love that the Cylons are religious freaks. They were created by man, but they believe in God and God's Will. I've often had a sense that if God exists, he or she is a sublime smart-ass, and not necessarily omnipotent or omniscient, just more potent and sciential than we are.