Scary. Sad.

Quoted: President Bush has set a record he'd presumably prefer to avoid: the highest disapproval rating of any president in the Gallup Poll.

Hah!

Quoted: A judge upheld a law regulating greenhouse gas emissions from vehicles in another legal defeat for the car industry.

Implicit is the idea that the folks involved shouldn't face prosecution. Perhaps they should. All the way up the chain.

Quoted: Fear of opening the door to criminal or civil liability appeared to loom large in answers to senators by Michael B. Mukasey, the attorney general nominee.

Dot Earth

Quoted: Andrew C. Revkin on climate change and sustainable living.

These guys are scary. The worst thing is, they might even be right, but who will trust them again? They blew their wad on Iraq when Iran and Pakistan are the real problems.

Quoted: Vice President Dick Cheney on Sunday said Iran would face “serious consequences” if the government there does not abandon its nuclear program.

When will the horror end?

Quoted: Verizon Communications, the nation's second-largest telecom company, told congressional investigators that it has provided customers' telephone records to federal authorities in emergency cases without court orders hundreds of times since 2005.

Wow, the NYT grows some balls.

Quoted: We have watched Republican lawmakers help President Bush shred the Constitution in the name of fighting terrorism. It is time for that to stop.

My country disgusts me sometimes.

Quoted: A German citizen who said he was kidnapped by the C.I.A. and tortured in a prison in Afghanistan lost his last chance to seek redress in court today.