Hockeytown
Playoffs start tonight at the Joe. All right, boys, let's not have a repeat of last year, shall we? You're all finally healthy, now kick some arse. It may have been the motto of the '97-'98 season, but I still have the patch on my sweater and I still think it's apropos: Believe.

Not Quite Deep Throat
I heard John Dean on NPR yesterday. Yes, because after G. Gordon Liddy, no one knows more about how to faithfully execute governmental duties than John Dean. Remember, folks, before he squealed*, he went along with the whole thing from start to finish. He didn't think Watergate or the cover-up were a bad ideas until he was facing prosecution. Convenient change of conscience, that.

*The "whistleblower" phenomenon is very interesting. Here these people are lauded as heroes, yet every child is repeatedly told that nobody likes a tattle-tail. And why is it that whistleblowers have so much credibility? For any whistleblower to be effective, they had to have gone along for quite a long time with whatever evil they now denounce. Odd, that.

H-A-D
Have a visual day.