Ah, the effectiveness of a deadline.

Progress on Out Of Bounds at long last.

The next four chapters have been sketched out. And music chosen!

And the massive outline of the rest of the story is done (thank you to perfica for batting ideas around with me).

What? It's a long story. :D

electricandroid, I think I'm going to make that deadline.

Libby's sentence on the Valerie Plame case was commuted by Bush.

Libby's sentence on the Valerie Plame case was commuted by Bush.

This is disgusting.

Valerie Plame was an undercover CIA operative. Her husband worked for our government (State Department, I believe) and went to Nigeria to check to see if Saddam Hussein was buying material for WMDs. He found little evidence of this fact, yet Bush lied in the State of the Union, saying Saddam Hussein was doing just that.

Valerie's husband came forward and said, no, that's not true. The CIA also fought internally and said the bulk of the evidence did not support Bush's claims.

Dick Cheney's office retaliated and leaked CIA agent Valerie Plame's undercover status to the press. There's evidence tying Libby, Karl Rove and Cheney to the leak, and I believe this was Cheney's decision (because this is his style: vengeful and dirty).

Blowing Valerie's cover could have cost her life. It did cost her job. The precedent is ugly news for the CIA because the executive branch now wields the power of life and death over their operatives if it is willing to sacrifice national security for petty vengeance.

Libby got 30 months jail time for his involvement, and it was clear he was the fall guy.

In a show of staggering disregard for our criminal justice system and personal favoritism, George Bush just wiped away all that jail time.

If our entire executive branch were blown up by terrorists tomorrow -- especially Dick Cheney -- I would not mourn. Maybe Cheney should go to Iraq for an extended vacation, with the CIA hunting for suicide bombers before his visit ... ooops, missed one.

For the first time I want Hillary Clinton as our next president.

Blades of Glory. Brash. Obvious. Hilarious.

Just got back from the silliest movie. It was sooo deliberately stupid and I loved every minute of it. My face hurts I laughed so hard.

I wasn't planning on seeing it until after I finished the skating fic, but after iibnf's recomendation (f-locked, so you'll just have to trust me it's a funny review) I couldn't resist.

wildernessguru wants to buy the video.

Oh, right, the name?

Blades of Glory. :D