Notes on a Zig Zag paper: The election in Afghanistan will prove to be cleaner than ours, as the Democrats continue to list fraudulent voters, and so on. Union thugs and other thugs (link to WSJ piece by John Fund)carrying guns have already done their best to disrupt the election process. When the UN inspectors blast the Black voters, the Indian Reservation tombstone ballots, the the various frauds around the country it's the Democrats who will look bad. Remember, it if isn't close they can't cheat.

Success for Democracy in Afghanistan is being mourned by the Left in our country, which is a sure sign that they see themselves losing in November. A good piece today is also in the Journal.

Cal should have beaten USC on Saturday and Rogers, the Cal quarterback, is the best college passer I have ever seen. Twenty three out of twenty three til late in the third and the Cal receivers caught everything. As a registered old fart I have seen plenty of college QBs, especially lately since we've had some good ones around here. A great game. Great. Now for the Red Sox-Yankees.

Kerry's remark about returning terrorism to being a nuisance reveals how entitlement Democrats view, or more precisely, choose to view terrorism. Their only concern is that "their entitlement money" is being spent to fight it. So random mass murder becomes just an annoyance so they can get more entitlements. Minor inconveniences are what Kerry and his crowd think has been happening in Israel, Iraq, the two bombings at the World Trade Center, the Marine Barracks back in the 80s, intifadas, orders to murder authors they don't like no matter where they live, beating up Jews whenever they feel like it. That was his Dukakis moment, thank God for that.


The AARP (Antique Americans Requiring Pampering) is now leading a whine for subsidized cell phone service even though most of them get cells and never use them.

But first marketers must overcome the concerns of Mr. Scocca and his peers, who say the phones are too small, too hard to hear and cost too much. Mr. Scocca ought to know. Two years ago, he bought service from AT&T Wireless. But he canceled it in May after the phone sat mostly unused on his kitchen table, though he spent $32 a month for service.

What next? Subsidized NFL Sunday Ticket? $10 limit for NBA tickets? Jesus Christ, when do people wise up and tell everybody old to deal with it?