I am a little late on this one, but what the heck.

Just a note for those of you who might actually still "look out" for the Homeland Security Threat Level that used to be in the upper right column. I am now using the Homeland Security Threat Level extension for FireFox.

Wee.

Here is a small excerpt from the Time magazine interview with Tom Brokaw:

Is there a story you regret not covering?

I regret that we didn't connect the dots on terrorism. We covered the story episodically?an attack on the U.S.S. Cole, the embassies, the Khobar Towers. The people in Washington say the terror is real, and we say yeah and go on to other things.

So you place some of the blame on journalists for that?

I do. I don't know whether we would have made the airline security better. But I do think that we should have, all of us, raised the issue in a more complete form earlier.

"We say yeah and go on to other things". Wow. Lamestream media dropped the ball? Who'da thunk it?

A man in Newark, N.J., who wanted to teach his daughter a lesson about drinking has ended up in trouble himself after calling the police.

Kevin Winson, 46, had called police to his home after one of his daughters came home intoxicated. However, his attempt to teach his 16-year-old daughter a lesson took a bizarre twist.

When police arrived at his home, the girl informed the police that she was afraid, because of what her father was hiding in their home.

The young girl led police to a crawl space where her father was keeping a stash of guns and hundreds of vials of illegal drugs.

Police said the man was arrested and charged with illegal possession of semiautomatic firearms and possession of a controlled substance.

You might be an idiot if… you take the parental high road to make an "example" of your child, but end up being the "example" travelling the low road.

"Two roads diverged in a wood…" (and he forgot what direction he was heading because he is a total moron).

I think the people of Ukraine have a lot more to worry about than the results of their current election.

While the entire world is focused on the fairness, or lack thereof, in the presidential election, there is a "side story" that has been reported but not covered with the intensity that I think it deserves.

As Ukraine's popular pro-Western opposition leader claimed victory Tuesday in hotly contested presidential elections, the mystery surrounding an appearance-altering illness that twice prompted him to check into a Vienna hospital persisted.

Yushchenko accused the Ukrainian authorities of poisoning him. His detractors suggested he'd eaten some bad sushi.

Adding to the intrigue, the Austrian doctors who treated him have asked foreign experts to help determine if his symptoms may have been caused by toxins found in biological weapons.

They claim his aliments could be caused by everything from "bad sushi" to biological weapons. Whatever caused it, I sure in the heck don't want to catch it. How do you go from this:

to this:

in four months? It looks to me like the "official Kremlin line" was to make sure he was eliminated BEFORE the election, but something went wrong. I bet heads are rolling (literally) for that one.