I'm back in Midland; I've been on the road from yesterday afternoon to this afternoon and been spending time with family this evening. It's wait-and-see time about the teaching interviews.
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The big news of the day was the Air Force going retro yesterday, playing some Gap Band north of Baghdad; they got Zarqawi to sing You Dropped a Bomb on Me while he got his 72 raisins. I got to hear way too much talk show analysis; my favorite was Laura Ingram's description of the MSM as the But Monkeys, as in "His death is good news, but... will it really help in the long run...will it slow down the insurgency...will it mean the US can get out any sooner."
On top of that, the Iraqi government finally filled in the national-security portfolios. How much the dispatching of Zarqawi will help is an open question, but it at minimum takes away Jihadi #1A (Osama's still #1 but Zarqawi was moving hard on the outside until yesterday's events) and makes the bad guys regroup.
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The cloture vote on the marriage amendment was 49-48; the cloture vote on repealing the estate tax was 57-41. Explain that eight-vote differential to me.
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I caught this interesting story live as I was driving through Georgia last night; there was a pair of TV towers side-by-side, one of which was damaged by a helicopter crash. They tried to bring the damaged tower down without harming the other; they brought in the top demolition crew in the country, the folks that brought the Kingdome and a lot of Vegas hotels down. However, the bad tower broke funny, caught the guy-wires of the good tower, and brought it down as well.
The Controlled Demolitions folks usually pull rabbits out of hat in bringing one building down while minimizing the damage to surrounding buildings, but everyone has bad days.
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