Okay, since I’m obviously not going to get any more work done before my recording session tonight, I’ll throw out some links that have been lying around.

First, this is hilarious, incomprehensible, and more than a little disturbing. Not exactly work-safe, btw.

Remember the leak last week of an Osama bin Laden video to news outlets, thus damaging the intelligence-gathering capabilities of the anti-terrorist group who obtained it? The White House denies having anything to do with it, though according to one account I read, the file was being downloaded by news organizations within nine minutes of the time it was given to the president’s legal counsel. As Joan Walsh at Salon asked, “Can you imagine the outrage if, say, Democratic leaders leaked intelligence information and cost counter-terror experts a valuable way into terror operations? Sure you can.”

If you aren’t depressed enough after that, you can read Seymour Hersh’s latest in The New Yorker, on how the administration is attempting to redefine the war in Iraq as a strategic struggle with Iran. He also did a 20-minute interview with Terry Gross on NPR’s Fresh Air. It is utter madness to even consider attacking Iran, but there can be little doubt that Cheney and other hard-core hawks are planning exactly that.