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Limbaugh on the Abu Ghraib debacle:

“RUSH: Exactly. Exactly my point! This is no different than what happens at the skull and bones initiation and we’re going to ruin people’s lives over it and we’re going to hamper our military effort, and then we are going to really hammer them because they had a good time. You know, these people are being fired at every day. I’m talking about people having a good time, these people, you ever heard of emotional release? You of heard of need to blow some steam off? These people are the enemy. Our people are being fired at, shot at, these are young people that have volunteered to go over there and they’re having bullets fired in their way, bombs and mortar fire aimed at ’em by the people that they are guarding and charged to get information from. Everybody has a breaking point. Now, I’m not suggesting that it’s common, normal in disciplined military structures for people to lose control. I’m suggesting that it might be understandable.

“…This sucks, folks. This really, really is getting out of hand. It’s not about us. And this whole self-absorption with us, why, that makes me look bad. It doesn’t make you look bad. You didn’t do it. No, it makes ugly American — you’re not an ugly American, we’re not ugly Americans. Screw all this. Stop making everything about us. Some people did something that was wrong. Fini. It’s over. Fix it. Move on.”

[via Wonkette]

What exactly are y’all feeding your cats over there in the great Heart of It All? A browse onto the DC NBC station says a lion is on the loose in your neighborhood (or Gahanna Woods, to be more precise). Some tips to keep you all safe.

Also, new links on the side — acquaintances of mine from hither and yon:

Steve Pheley — one-time SAVANT crony, now with his own comics blog.

Charity Larrison — webdesigner/artist

Wonkette — Inside-the-Beltway political gossip, pointed out to me by my lil’ sis.

Oh yeah. Today’s my birthday. I got a bike.

It’s like I’m an eight-year old kid, again. EEEEEE!!!!!

So here’s a funny/sad thing: comics and animation writer Micah Wright, the writer of the recently-cancelled DC/Wildstorm comic STORMWATCH and the author of YOU BACK THE ATTACK! WE’LL BOMB WHO WE WANT, a book of remixed propaganda posters satirizing the current US Administration, who made a name for himself as a former Army Ranger-turned-“pacificist”/writer, actually never served in the Armed Forces. Anywhere. Wright appears to have been trying to do some damage control by “coming clean” before a column in the Washington Post broke the story…

All of which is kind of funny, given that Wright’s STORMWATCH book was just cancelled by DC/Wildstorm, and Wright had been very publicly encouraging fans of the book to order copies of the now-cancelled collected edition from Amazon.com in an attempt to get DC/WS to publish the thing anyway.

Kinda puts a whole new spin on the reasons for the cancellation, doesn’t it? Don’t suppose there’ll be a whole lot of new Micah Wright comics coming out from any of the big companies any time soon…

Although it’s already all over the comics blogosphere (and man, does that sound ridiculous when you actually type it out), I saw this first at Kevin Melrose’s Thought Balloons, so he gets the shout out…

Tomorrow night’s NIGHTLINE featuring Ted Koppel won’t be airing here in Columbus, apparently.

Guess we’ll just be taping The Cure’s appearance on Jay Leno, then.

(credit to Aaron Veenstra)