TGIF Post #1

My company is doing its semi annual flushing of e-mail down the memory hole, deleting all mail prior to October 1. So, I have to go through say, 800 messages and see if there is anything really important and either print or save as text. So, that's my morning shot right there. Going wardriving this afternoon with a Clinton Herald reporter. She's doing an article on WiFi security. Birthday festivities for my wife and my mother this weekend. MLS Cup Saturday. Can't really be bothered as I positively hate both the Galaxy and the Revs. Watching the USA "Euro" squad play Scotland in a friendly should be entertaining and it's on at a reasonable 11 a.m. here in the states.

To wrap up a week that has seen the Democratic party's first major victories since ... Jesus, since Clinton won a second term in '96, a dose of reality from the venerable Rude Pundit to take you into the weekend with the following words of wisdom:

The wolverine is the largest land-dwelling member of the weasel family. It's a crazed, vicious little fucker that can carry a carcass three times its size. Shit, it can bring down a caribou or a small bear, if it wants to. And its jaws can crush bones. Typically, all a wolverine has to do to drive away other predatory animals is growl, raise the hair on its back, and bare its teeth; that'll scare cougars and wolves shitless. And if you corner it, you better watch out: those bastards'll fight until they tear their way through your body, leaving you stunned and staring at your own viscera steaming on the snow below you. It's better to kill it than try to fight it. Or, if you're all scientific or protective of endangered species, put it into a deep sleep and cage the sharp-toothed weasel.

It is advice best heeded by Democrats in the coming months. For right now, the Republicans are wounded, corner wolverines, and Karl Rove has months of suppressed destructive urges to unleash on the Democrats for the 2006 elections. It's probably not gonna start in earnest until after the holidays, but wolverines do not hibernate. They troll the snowy countryside for deer and rabbits so they can sink their teeth in and taste that warm, comforting blood and soft, rubbery meat.

We do know that the White House is about to launch an offensive against Democrats on big issues like misuse of WMD intelligence. But that's just the start. 2006 is gonna be savage and bloody in ways that'll make 2002 and 2004 seem like prances through perfumed daisy patches. Remember: when the Republicans went after the blown-up limbs of Max Cleland and the corpse of Paul Wellstone, they were ridin' high poll numbers and majorities in Congress. Now, they know they're clinging on by their fingernails and there's only a couple of strategies available: bail on Bush or fight like large weasels.