Karl Rove, Valerie Plame, etc.

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As others have commented, there's a disturbance in the Force involving Karl Rove being the Dweeb-throat that leaked Plame's identity to the press. I smell a set up. I'm aghast that Karl Rove would have let himself get caught in a silly scandal like this, and that any of his constituents aren't protecting him. I just feel concerned that a number of people will come out and accuse him, then he'll be exonerated, and yet again the "liberal press" will be lambasted for their shoddy reporting.

I wonder why Robert Novak, who is credited with reporting the Plame story first, isn't being prosecuted, while two other journalists are facing such heat from the law. That bothers me quite a bit.

Anyway, it's interesting, but odd.

Last night the Nutwalls wrote and layed out the design for "Bioluminescent Man", our offering for Songfight's "Bioluminescence" theme. This one will have a punk feel. Playing the drums for this little number is very therapeutic.

And, most noteworthy: I broke my first drumstick while raging away on my drumkit!!! Woo!

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I wonder why Robert Novak, who is credited with reporting the Plame story first, isn't being prosecuted, while two other journalists are facing such heat from the law. That bothers me quite a bit.

The cynical (and probably true) answer: Novak's a whore to the Republicans, and the White House told the Justice Department he was off limits.

A slightly more palatable answer: Novak's got no journalistic ethics (see the above "whore" comment), and he spilled his guts as soon as he was called before the investigators. They've since been putting the screws to two people who didn't break the story, in order to get one or the other to corroborate Novak's testimony about the source.