Good day on ze interwebz

[Updated to include link to rape story]
As Smed just reported, we won the War on Drugs. It's over. Why? Prices for coke are sky high (hehehehe) -- and clearly that can't have anything to do with inflation, cause it doesn't exist.

Glen Greenwald posted a completely fascinating article by Norman Podhoretz, written in 1963, where he talks about hating "Negroes," a lot, because they were mean to him when he was little, and he just can't seem to shake that feeling of black hatred in his heart. Who is Norm? Why do we care? He's Rudy's foreign policy advisor. Incredible. The article is 100% worth reading. [Link is towards the bottom}.

Digby's got a good bit on intelligent design crazies which I thought might interest mathgimp, and anyone else out there with a pulse.

In updates from last week, the number of sick fucks increases. Remember the prosecutor who was arrested for crossing state lines to have sex with a three-year-old? Well, apparently someone beat him to it. The entire story's completely bizarre and gruesome and awful. Short version: man rapes 3-year-old girl, apparently while the kid's mom was at work. No one finds out about it until 4 years later, when a tape of the rape surfaces somewhere in the desert. Some dude found the video tape...held on to it for a while...was arrested for child pornography...people said "wow! this is real!" And everyone said "well, I'm glad we've found out, but the kid's happy, so why are we bringing it up?......" Here's the link. People disgust me.

The Junta in Burma just turned off the internet. CNN has video footage of the soldiers beating civilians. Thousands are being reported dead, and monks bodies are being dumped in the forest. All for democracy. British papers like the Daily Mail are doing a nice job covering the story, with some pretty remarkable photos.

Oh, and Bush vetoed SCHIP (State Children's Health Insurance Program) despite - get this - 86% approval amongst the American public.

Voters support reauthorization regardless of political party, with 77 percent of Republicans, 86 percent of Independents and 93 percent of Democrats supporting reauthorization.

That's more bipartisan than Santa Claus. And yet, Bush's 4th veto. Amazing.