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Can't. Stop. Laughing.
Best description of Scotty's performance at the press conference, from Atrios:
Scotty sure does look like he swallowed poop.LOLOLOLOLOL!!!!!
Gulp.
See Scott Dance
See Scott squirm.
See Scott wriggle.
Laugh and laugh and laugh.
Coming soon from the author of See Scott Dance...an amazing tale of triumph over crippling apathy, See the Media Do Its Job.*
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* See the Media Be Useless Turds may be substituted as required, though the author and publisher sincerely hope that such substitution will not be necessary.
A Few Bad Apples
Before I even start down this road, I want to reassure anyone who might be stopping by for the first time, or for whatever reason doesn’t know my position on supporting the troops, that I do support the troops, and every day I’m grateful for men and women who put their lives on the line in combat. People have died for my right to say whatever I want on this very blog, and I never lose sight of that.
That said, supporting the troops doesn’t mean I give a pass to soldiers who are fucking idiots.
On my lunch hour, I ran out to get something to eat, and I was listening to Rush Limbaugh blathering away (again) about how the likes of Ted Kennedy, Barbara Boxer, and Dick Durbin are endangering our troops by verbalizing criticisms of the war and/or the administration. In the same segment, he proudly and excitedly hawked his “Club Gitmo” gear—t-shirts and hats designed to mock the mistreatment of detainees at the Guantanamo Bay facility, emblazoned with phrases such as:
Your Tropical Retreat from the Stress of Jihad
My Mullah went to Club G'itmo and All I Got Was This Lousy T-Shirt
I Got My Free Koran and Prayer Rug at G'itmo
What Happens in G'itmo Stays in G'itmo
For coffee-drinkers, there’s also a mug labeled “Jihad Java Café.”
He then referred his listeners to a picture on his website of soldiers serving in Iraq wearing the “Club Gitmo” gear.
In case you can’t read it, the caption notes that Camp Ramadi has been renamed “Club G’itmo East.”
So this is how we’re winning hearts and minds, huh? Assholes. And anyone who thinks that’s harsh—well, consider this: pulling that shit endangers the lives of other soldiers, soldiers who actually care about how other people are treated, even enemy combatants, soldiers who realize that ridiculing the mistreatment of detainees in our facilities could mean that if one of them is ever captured, their captors have one less reason to treat them well.
Tell me again how liberal Senators are endangering our troops. Better yet, explain to me how these fuckwits aren’t doing a pretty damn good job of that themselves by putting their contempt for human rights on a goddamn t-shirt in the middle of the war zone.
Who are the Brain Police?
My neighbor died last night.
I live in a 2-flat, with another 2-flat attached to the rear. He lived in the lower rear apartment. Our neighbor in the upper rear apartment found him, lying in the entranceway to the basement. He was an old man, probably in his 60's. I never really knew him... it's a cliché, but he was a "quiet type that kept to himself." I think the man may have actually been seriously paranoid. He rarely left his home, never opened his window shades, he taped over his door windows, and wouldn't even allow the landlord into his apartment. (The landlord hasn't seen the inside of that apartment in eight years.) The upstairs neighbor told me that he (the downstairs neighbor) had installed video cameras at each of his doors so he could see when anyone was approaching.
My husband and I used to joke that if he ever left the apartment, the landlord would find mummified corpses of people and animals in all the closets.
That joke doesn't seem so funny anymore.
Anyway, one thing really struck me last night, after the discovery (the husband actually tried CPR, the MD in him urging him to attempt the pointless), after talking to the paramedics, and then dealing with the police...
I was very nervous while talking to the police.
I mean, VERY nervous. Not to the point of stuttering and sweating buckets, but I found myself second-guessing everything I said when i was talking to them. I barely knew the guy, even though we'd lived there for two years... was that going to look bad? Should I not have have brought up that he seemed a little paranoid? Should I not have mentioned that the landlord tried to enter the apartment when he came to see what was going on? Am I taking too long to answer questions? Do I look nervous? Am I talking too much?
I feel a little silly about it today, but last night, after the shock of finding a dead body right under your porch, and then having to deal with police and paramedics right when you were about to hop into bed is unnerving. Now, I should say that the policemen that were there in no way appeared threatening or suspicious; they asked some questions in a very businesslike manner and went about their job. They were very polite and courteous. But the whole thing still made me very nervous and uncomfortable.
Thank you, Patriot Act.
I'm actually pretty pissed off about my reaction. I have never felt nervous around the police. The old "I have nothing to hide" thing, but even when I have had encounters with the police, I have never felt anything but 100% calm and in control. I know there are good cops and bad cops, but I have never felt threatened by one. After all, I knew I had done nothing wrong, so why did I have to be worried?
Because these days, innocence doesn't appear to matter.
I'm not foolish or paranoid enough to think that these two policemen were planning on spiriting me off to Guantanamo. I don't think anyone is out to get me. And I seriously doubt that my blog, or anything else anti-Bush that I've said, done or written has ever blipped on the radar of the FBI or anyone else. I have several friends that are cops, and even though I've had my cynicism in the past about the police, I've always been a supporter. I bought a table full of NYPD a round of beers after 9/11, fer chrissakes.
But.... I do know the Bush Administration is not above petty revenge tactics. I do know that our government has arrested and imprisoned people for being the wrong color, or in the wrong place at the wrong time. I do know there's even more we don't know. I also know that opening your mouth and speaking against Dear Leader these days can get you in a truckload of trouble.
The lovely gift of the Patriot Act has done nothing but bring us paranoia, suspicion,and fear. And now it's made me nervous around cops.
That really pisses me off.
(Stuck in the cross-post with you...)
Connect the Dots
Re: Paul’s post below, I just wanted to add that rather than viewing the Plame issue, and particularly Rove’s role in it, as separate from the issues raised by the Downing Street Memos, it’s important to see them all as part and parcel of one larger issue. Practically and factually, that issue is information manipulation and message control, and allowing ideologically-driven and –designed propaganda to trump fact-based intelligence. Philosophically, that issue is a severe and appalling breech of ethics, most notably the betrayal of the trust of the American people.
We need to view both of these issues, and many of the others Paul astutely noted, as part of a pattern of behavior (or misbehavior, as the case may be), signaling the true nature of an extremist administration who cares little for the American people, or protecting them by undertaking a wise and rational national security policy, but instead seeks to exploit the very fear that is generated by ignoring the appropriate responses real threats demand.
Connect the dots. Each dot is important, and once connected, they reveal a clear picture of what this administration is all about.
(And yes, we're going to have to show that pretty picture to the mainstream media, who are clearly patently incapable of connecting those dots themselves.)
It's in the hole!
I'm worried.
Sure, what's not to worry about? We've certainly got our hands full these days, and heaven knows we're all suffering from information overload and outrage fatigue. It's exactly at times like this that important stories slip through the cracks, and it feels like we've grabbed the tip of the paper just before it slips through.
The Downing Street Memo(s).
Oh yeah, that.
I'm really worried about this vanishing down the memory hole. I know I don't have to preach to the choir and go on and on about how important the DSMs are, but talk of them in the MSM has all but vanished, and I've noticed that even the blogs haven't been attacking it that much recently.
Granted, there's a lot going on right now.
As serious as it is, I wouldn't want the Rove hubbub to completely bury the DSM. The prospect of actually nailing him on this one is very tantilizing... we'd finally have the satisfation of seeing a Bushie get punished for their crimes for once, and let's face it, who doesn't want to see Rove go down in flames? Even though a pardon is pretty much inevitable, someone in this group of maniacs should finally have to face the consequences of their schemes. It's very important... and juicy, and fun... but man, that paper just slipped a little bit more...
Meanwhile, London explodes, (and they're doing a fantastic job of taking care of themselves after this attack; I'm impressed) the Supreme Court activities of the past few weeks are making most of us sweat bullets, the people of Florida finally dried out their carpet only to find their homes armpit deep in water again, Bush is licking his chops like a wolf over his latest "see, I was right about them terists" justification, the slaughter in Iraq continues, the government continues its Guantanamo shell game, Halliburton pockets another five billion, and on, and on, and on....
The DSM has almost vanished completely.
But, almost only counts in horseshoes and hand grenades. To coin a phrase.
We've still got the corner in our fingertips. Make no mistake, Bloggers and the online community are what made the DSM "a story with legs" in the first place. The MSM would have completely ignored this outrageously important news if it wasn't for us.
Let's keep the ball rolling. Don't let the DSMs slip through the cracks. Now that they have been confirmed, they are more important than ever. Blair confirming the authenticity of the DSMs was the last "real" story that I could find about them in the news (that wasn't a brief mention, letter to the editor, or giving it the "so-called DSM" brushoff). Why the hell would the confirmation of the memos be the end of the story?
Get loud. Get angry. Get furious.
(Cross-post, you're the one... you make bathtime lots of fun...)
The Blind Leading the Blind
Or fighting the blind, as the case may be.
"The problem is that the Americans have no vision and no clear policy on how to go about in Iraq."
-- former interim prime minister Iyad Allawi, 10 July 2005
"The terrorists and the regime elements are desperate. They are going to be defeated. They have no vision to offer. They have no alternative to offer, other than destruction and chaos and killing of innocent civilians."
-- Scott McClellan, 20 June 2005
Via Blogenlust.
Huh?
The New York Times reports tangentially on Rove’s role in the Plame affair in an article headlined For Time Inc. Reporter, a Frenzied Decision to Testify, which basically describes Cooper’s attempts to get a "certain, unambiguous waiver" from his source before testifying—even though he had a signed waiver.
Around 7:30 on Wednesday morning, Mr. Cooper had said goodbye to his son, resigned to his fate. His lawyer, Mr. Sauber, called to alert him to a statement from Mr. Luskin in The Wall Street Journal.Then, in a Washington Post story, headlined Rove Told Reporter of Plame's Role But Didn't Name Her, Attorney Says, in which staff writer Josh White kindly outlines Rove’s entire jagoff defense, we find out a little bit more about this waiver:
"If Matt Cooper is going to jail to protect a source," Mr. Luskin told The Journal, "it's not Karl he's protecting."
That provided an opening, Mr. Cooper said. "I was not looking for a waiver," he said, "but on Wednesday morning my lawyer called and said, 'Look at The Wall Street Journal. I think we should take a shot.' And I said, 'Yes, it's an invitation.' "
In court shortly after 2, he told Judge Thomas F. Hogan of the Federal District Court in Washington that he had received "an express personal release from my source."
That statement surprised Mr. Luskin, Mr. Rove's lawyer. Mr. Luskin said he had only reaffirmed the blanket waiver, in response to a request from Mr. Fitzgerald.
After the investigation into the leak began, Luskin said, Rove signed a waiver in December 2003 or January 2004 authorizing prosecutors to speak to any reporters Rove had previously engaged in discussion, which included Cooper.If there’s been a signed waiver in place for a year and a half, what’s all this rigmarole been about? Is Luskin playing a little game of semantics by describing the waiver as granting authorization to prosecutors to speak to reporters, or did it really only grant that permission and not the other way around? Just because it was "intended" to be a global waiver doesn't necessarily mean it was, no? If the waiver didn’t explicitly allow reporters to speak with prosecutors, then is this waiver even relevant, aside from making Rove look innocent and Cooper like kind of a jerk?
"His written waiver included the world," Luskin said. "It was intended to be a global waiver. . . . He wants to make sure that the special prosecutor has everyone's evidence. That reflects someone who has nothing to hide."
Cooper had indicated he would go to jail rather than expose a confidential source, but he agreed last week to cooperate with the grand jury after getting clearance from his source to testify. Luskin said Cooper had been clear to testify all along -- because of the waiver signed 18 months ago -- but that the waiver was "reaffirmed" on Wednesday, the day of a hearing to decide whether he and Miller would go to jail.
Fuck, I can barely tell what’s bad reporting and what’s Rove & Co.’s usual jerk-around. Between the two, both par for the course nowadays, it’s a miracle I can even follow this bramble of bullshit at all.
John Conyers for President
It’s official. I’m announcing my endorsement of Congressman Conyers for the 2008 presidential race.
Because he’s the only one who’s earning our votes:
A letter penned by Rep. John Conyers (D-MI) calling on Bush adviser Karl Rove to explain or resign over his role in outing a CIA agent has garnered a handful of signatories in the House, RAW STORY has learned.Following is the text of the letter, not blockquoted due to length:
Just 17 members have signed. Finding congressmembers to sign a letter during a Congressional recess is often difficult, and Conyers' office has extended a deadline for others to sign on until next Wednesday.
The current signers are Reps. John Conyers, Jr.; Maurice Hinchey; Sheila Jackson Lee; Sam Farr; Diane Watson; Barbara Lee; Zoe Lofgren; Danny Davis; Henry Waxman; Corrine Brown; Carolyn Cheeks Kilpatrick; Raul Grijalva; James McGovern; Bernie Sanders; Lynn Woolsey; Mike Honda; and Carolyn Maloney.
July 14, 2005
The President The White House Washington, DC
Dear Mr. President:
We write in order to urge that you require your Deputy White House Chief of Staff, Karl Rove, to either come forward immediately to explain his role in the Valerie Plame matter or to resign from your Administration.
Notwithstanding whether Mr. Rove intentionally violated the law in leaking information concerning former CIA operative Valerie Plame, we believe it is not tenable to maintain Mr. Rove as one of your most important advisors unless he is willing to explain his central role in using the power and authority of your Administration to disseminate information regarding Ms. Plame and to undermine her husband, Ambassador Joseph Wilson.
We now know that e-mails recently turned over by Time, Inc. between writer Matthew Cooper and Time editors reveal that one of Mr. Cooper's principal sources in the Plame matter was Mr. Rove.1 This has been confirmed by Newsweek and two lawyers representing witnesses involved in the investigation.2 Mr. Rove's attorney, Robert Luskin, also has confirmed that Mr. Rove was interviewed by Mr. Cooper in connection with a possible article about Ms. Plame three or four days before Robert Novak wrote a column outing Ms. Plame as a CIA operative.3
We also know that Mr. Rove told Chris Matthews that Ambassador Wilson's wife and her undercover status were "fair game."4 A White House source also appears to have previously acknowledged that Mr. Rove contacted Mr. Matthews and other journalists, indicating that "it was reasonable to discuss who sent Wilson to Niger."5
The above facts appear to be directly inconsistent with previous statements by you and representatives of your Administration concerning leaking in general and the Plame case in particular. For example, on September 30, 2003, you stated "there's just too many leaks [in Washington]. And if there is a leak out of my administration, I want to know who it is."6 You also stated "I want to know the truth. If anybody has got any information inside our administration or outside our administration, it would be helpful if they came forward with the information so we can find out whether or not these allegations are true and get on about the business."7 On October 10, 2003, White House Press Secretary Scott McClellan was asked if Mr. Rove or two other aides in your Administration had ever discussed the Plame matter with any reporter, and he stated he had spoken to Mr. Rove and the others and "they assured me that they were not involved in this."8
Regardless of whether these actions violate the law - including specific laws against the disclosure of classified information9 as well as broader laws against obstruction of justice,10 the negligent distribution of defense information,11 and obligating reporting of press leaks to proper authorities12 - they seem to reveal a course of conduct designed to threaten and intimidate those who provide information critical of your Administration, such as Ambassador Wilson.
We hope you agree with us that such behavior should never be tolerated by any Administration. While it is acceptable for a private citizen to use every legal tool at his or her disposal to protect himself against legal liability, high-ranking members of your Administration who are involved in any effort to smear a private citizen or to disseminate information regarding a CIA operative should be expected to meet a far higher standard of ethical behavior and forthrightness. This is why we believe it is so important that Mr. Rove publicly and fully explain his role in this matter.
Meanwhile, What of Jailbird Judy?
An important thing to keep in mind is that there are still some unanswered questions. John at Blogenlust thinks that Judy Miller might be the key. Recall that last week, it was suggested by the Washington Post that Plame's identity as a covert CIA operative was leaked by a reporter rather than a Bush administration official.
Did Miller pass the information to Rove who passed it to Cooper (and others)? John makes a great attempt at piecing together what her involvement may have been. Check it out.
Traitors
You know, if I wasn’t pissed enough about liberals being called traitors by the operatives and supporters of this administration, in addition to the thinly veiled with-us-or-against-us charges issued by the administration itself, the fact that these reprobates have been proven to be traitors—and not in some hyperbolic way, but in a very real, criminal way—just makes my blood absolutely boil.
Arthur Silber:
[A]ll that matters is that Valerie Plame was a CIA agent, and one who worked in the especially critical area of weapons of mass destruction. Despite this overwhelmingly important fact, the Bush administration—the administration that claims its “War on Terror” is more important than anything else in the world, and that relies on its “determination” to fight our nation’s enemies to quell all doubts and questions about any of its actions—made Plame’s identity known to the public, via leaks to the press…
By exposing her identity, the administration undercut the CIA’s ability to work against the spread of dangerous weapons, it put our nation at greater risk, and it placed not only Plame’s life in danger—but also the lives of all those in Plame’s network of contacts, a network built up over many years of work. We will never know how many people may have been endangered by the administration’s actions, or how many people may have died as a result…
The point is a simple one: Bush and many of those in his administration are untrustworthy on the most fundamental level. They don’t care about national security, and they don’t care about the lives of those whose safety they are sworn to protect, despite all their vacuous statements to the contrary. When their own credibility was put in question, they were prepared to endanger our safety, and they were prepared to put people’s lives in peril—including those people who worked the hardest and took the greatest risks in seeking to protect the United States from
danger.
In moral and political terms, if not in strictly legal ones, these people are traitors—to the United States, and to each and every one of us. These people are unfit to serve. They should be denounced and forced out of government, now and forevermore.
trai·tor n. One who betrays one's country, a cause, or a trust
We cannot leave our country in the hands of these people any longer. And any conservative who claims to love America would do well to forego any protestations about this and see the abject danger we all face being led by those who value vengeance over national security. This battle has begun in earnest, and it’s time to pick sides. Are you going to be an ideologue, or a real American patriot? The two have become mutually exclusive.
As for the rest of us, we’d better batten down the hatches. RJ wisely notes at Skippy:
it's way too early to celebrate. this is a chess game, and they've got a grand strategy. special prosecutor fitzgerald, it's your move.And if we can’t call checkmate, we’ll lose a hell of a lot more than a chess game.
Drip…drip…drip…
Leaks are just springing up all over the place these days.
BBC News reports that a document called “Options for Future UK Force Posture in Iraq” and marked “Secret: UK Eyes Only,” has been leaked to The Mail, discussing not only the reduction of British troops, but also of American troops in Iraq, including the US’ wishes to hand over control of 14 of Iraq’s 18 provinces to Iraqi forces by early 2006, with a note that the Pentagon and US commanders in Iraq are divided over the plans.
SimianBrain’s got an excellent comprehensive post on this here.
And the hits just keep on coming…
Rove is the Plame Leaker
Newsweek confirms that Rove was Matt Cooper’s Source:
It was 11:07 on a Friday morning, July 11, 2003, and Time magazine correspondent Matt Cooper was tapping out an e-mail to his bureau chief, Michael Duffy. "Subject: Rove/P&C," (for personal and confidential), Cooper began. "Spoke to Rove on double super secret background for about two mins before he went on vacation ..." Cooper proceeded to spell out some guidance on a story that was beginning to roil Washington. He finished, "please don't source this to rove or even WH [White House]" and suggested another reporter check with the CIA.His defense so far seems to be that he didn’t say her name, just “Wilson’s wife,” and didn’t know that she was undercover, just that she was CIA.
[…]
Rove has never publicly acknowledged talking to any reporter about former ambassador Joseph Wilson and his wife. But last week, his lawyer, Robert Luskin, confirmed to NEWSWEEK that Rove did—and that Rove was the secret source who, at the request of both Cooper's lawyer and the prosecutor, gave Cooper permission to testify.
[…]
Rove told Cooper that Wilson's trip had not been authorized by "DCIA"—CIA Director George Tenet—or Vice President Dick Cheney. Rather, "it was, KR said, wilson's wife, who apparently works at the agency on wmd [weapons of mass destruction] issues who authorized the trip." Wilson's wife is Plame, then an undercover agent working as an analyst in the CIA's Directorate of Operations counterproliferation division. (Cooper later included the essence of what Rove told him in an online story.) The e-mail characterizing the conversation continues: "not only the genesis of the trip is flawed an[d] suspect but so is the report. he [Rove] implied strongly there's still plenty to implicate iraqi interest in acquiring uranium fro[m] Niger ... “
[…]
Nothing in the Cooper e-mail suggests that Rove used Plame's name or knew she was a covert operative. Nonetheless, it is significant that Rove was speaking to Cooper before Novak's column appeared; in other words, before Plame's identity had been published. Fitzgerald has been looking for evidence that Rove spoke to other reporters as well. "Karl Rove has shared with Fitzgerald all the information he has about any potentially relevant contacts he has had with any reporters, including Matt Cooper," Luskin told NEWSWEEK.
So, once again, we’re being asked to rid ourselves of all common sense and logic to accept the administration’s excuses. We are instead meant to believe that Karl Rove, an unapologetic political ideologue and opportunist, widely regarded as perhaps the dirtiest trickster in the business with a history of vengeful tactics against political opponents, and Bush’s right hand man, a political advisor who ascended to a permanent position in the White House, affording him some senior level of security clearance, knew that “Wilson’s wife” was a CIA operative, but didn’t know that she was undercover and was talking to Cooper “to discourage Time from publishing things that turned out to be false,” not to punish Wilson for reporting that the intelligence the administration was using to bolster their case for war was bullshit—even though the Downing Street Memos have noted that they were fixing the intelligence around the policy. Forget Occam’s Razor, which suggests that the most logical explanation is usually the right one, and instead grab with both hands the most convoluted explanation, which coincidentally exonerates Rove of all wrongdoing.
How much more of this shit are the American people going to swallow before they demand that the entire lot of criminals running the joint are roughly escorted out the fucking door?
Buffoonery
George Bush said it was time he grew up after cycling into a policeman - on his 59th birthday.
The US president's mishap came on his mountain bike outside the G8 venue, reports the Mirror.
Mr Bush, left with cuts to an arm and hand, showed off grazed fingers to reporters and grinned: "It goes to show I should act my age."
[…]
The president blamed a rigorous work-out and the damp conditions as he appeared at an early press call with Tony Blair.
He said: "When you ride a mountain bike, sometimes you fall, otherwise you are not riding hard. The pavement was slick and the bike came off underneath me."
His concern, he said, was for the Strathclyde officer adding: "I talked to him. He is doing fine."
In May last year Mr Bush crashed his bike on his ranch. In 2002, he famously fainted and toppled off his sofa in the White House when he choked on a pretzel and in June 2003, he fell off a scooter at his estate in Maine.
Pretty impressive.
John Howard Secretly Rules the Universe
Don’t doubt it. It’s true.
If he hadn’t been the first to comment on this blog, I might have just packed it in after awhile, because it was starting to seem pretty pointless. But he did, so I kept going.
And if he hadn’t started reading the novel I started blogging, and liked it, and complained about there not being a link on this page so he could access the other one more easily, I wouldn’t have added it. But he did, so now it’s added. You can find it in the lefthand menu.
The entire thing is online now, and for anyone who’s reading it, comments are welcome, of both positive and negative sorts.
Thank you, John—for your input and encouragement, and your humor and insight. And for authoring the hottest blog on the internets, which is always one of the highlights of my day.
(Rhetorical) Question of the Day
Do you think it’s weird that I’m strangely flattered by this?
Blogs have just reached a critical new level in reading for me. I printed out Running Scared and Shakespeare's Sister as bathroom material today.Scott has a lovely poem to go with it, which you definitely check out.
Huh
So Hurricane Dennis has reached Gitmo. I wonder if Pat Robertson or Fred Phelps, who claim that gays cause hurricanes and natural disasters are punishments for acts against nature, like homosexuality, are going to have anything to say about what could be going on at Gitmo that God doesn’t like?
Friday Blogrollin'
King of Zembla, for lots and lots of reasons, the most recent of which is this, which I strongly encourage you to read.
Radical Russ, who recently filled in for Pam while she was on holiday and did an absolutely smashing job. He should have been on my blogroll a long time ago (sorry, Russ!).
Unpaid Punditry Corps, featuring some of my favorite bloggers, PSoTD, Simianbrain, and NewsHog, and the rest of whom I intend to spend some more time with in short order.
Robust McManlyPants, for reasons which I assume are evident. Come on—his name is Robust McManlyPants! (I’ll bet Mannion is desperately jealous he didn’t think of that first.)
Republic of Dogs, which is full of good stuff, this being a recent favorite.
Brother Kenya’s Paradigm, because he is a good blogger, has a good sense of humor, and happened by my place among some curious circumstance that isn’t quite as peculiar as my having seen Spudsy in a play a decade ago, but was interesting nonetheless.
