Dubya came out swinging on Veteran's Day against critics of his war in Iraq, accusing detractors of re-writing history on how the war started.

Here were three of the four Google text ads that came up when I went to read Chantal Hebert's Toronto Star column online just now:

I can only presume the Google Adsense system thinks unemployed, gay-conservative-but-still-gay-marriage-supporting Christians looking for new blogs or a quick buck are the target demographic of the column.

I found this to be an interesting juxtaposition of stories on the NYT home page:

The U.S. Senate wants U.S. intelligence chief John Negroponte to give secret testimony to two Congressional panels on the so-called "black sites" used to hold some terror suspects.

Two female academics and authors take aim at a central point in NYT columnist Mo Dowd's new book  Are Men Necessary: When Sexes Collide.

At Queen and Bathurst, a bunch of young rockers are loading equipment out of The Reverb/Holy Joe's into U-Haul trucks.

Across the street, a frazzled-looking street man, approximately in his mid-50s, balding with a fringe of ginger-coloured hair, is standing and projecting like Pavarotti trying to hit a high C.

Except what's coming out is a very loud: "Gleeeecckkk!! Ack, ack, ack!!" Or sounds to that effect (I wasn't taking notes).

Some other fellow, bearded, with a fisherman's cap and camel-coloured coat, but otherwise equally streety, loudly and unsympathetically muttered -- to no one in particular: "Geez, if I yelled like that, they'd throw me in the fuckin' mental hospital!"

The young rockers just grinned and kept on loading.

The host of Democracy Now!, which I think is the best U.S. (although imperfect) alternative news source out there, is lauded at Common Dreams.