I'm a bit embarrassed to dot this show, but the "Not my Job" segment with Special (not in the Ruffalo sense of the word) Prosecutor and US Attorney Patrick Fitzgerald was superb this week. And Fitzgerald almost never does interviews or public appearances, which made it even cooler.

Last dot on this topic. The "smirk" referred to below was in response to the Pope's (!) request for mercy for Karla Tucker. Luckily, the president gets along much better w/ Ratz than that last bleeding heart.

Quoted: George Bush has not commuted a single one of the 155 death sentences for which he has been responsible as governor of Texas and president of the United States. Not that he is without mercy. Scooter Libby, a political crony of the vice president convicted of obstruction of justice and sentenced to prison, will not spend a day in jail, thanks to Bush’s intervention.

Quoted: Bush smirked as he sent Karla Tucker, the cutest of his victims, to the lethal injection chamber, counting as for nothing the horrendous circumstances of her life and what seemed subsequently to be genuine remorse for her actions. Crowds outside the prison cheered as Karla Tucker was killed. Karla Tucker was of course merely a former drug addict and prostitute who used to hang out with the Allman Brothers band, whereas Libby was a graduate of Andover Academy and Yale.

Apparently this guy is being recalled to Marine service so that he can be re-discharged, this time dishonorably. Oh boy.

Quoted: The funeral stunt earned the protesters a coveted “political protest” arrest — apparently it’s now illegal to protest anything for political reasons — and your favorite Marine was also charged with “Unlawful Assembly — Loud and Boisterous,” despite the fact that he was silent during the performance.

Quoted: And while right-wingers had no problem mocking the mother of a soldier killed in Iraq, they have a tougher time mocking an actual living Marine male veteran who actually fought in the war they just write about on their blogs.

Quoted: All the chickenhawks will have permission to call him a traitor or whatever on the blogs and talk radio if he suddenly becomes dishonorably discharged, that’s the point!

Wonkette unleashes some zingers on my new part-time city of residence. Hiarious hockey banter ensues in comments section.

Quoted: In the abandoned metropolis once known as Detroit, animals and mutants scavenge in the wreckage for food and miles of entire city blocks have been reclaimed by wilderness.

Hmmm. I think if Mr. Hayes visited he would realize that it's impossible to staff a decent History or English department with Republicans, and that ours are very good.

Most Calvin students come in as Republicans, and most don't change their minds. I think most at least learn how to think critically about how their faith and their politics interact.

Quoted: "What students are taught at a place like Regent, or even Calvin and Wheaton, is to live out a Christ-centered existence in all facets of their lives. But what they learn is to become Republicans."

A hot parlor game indeed. It will be interesting. I'm guessing he gets pardoned.

Quoted: Just minutes after the Libby guilty verdict came down yesterday, the hottest parlor game in town quickly shifted from, Will the jury find Libby guilty? to Will President Bush pardon Libby?

Interesting and troubling. The part that bothers me most is that the administration claimed they were fired for poor job performance. They serve at your leisure - at least have the nerve to say there were other people you just liked better for the job, don't make up lies that will affect the rest of a person's career.

The US Att'y for Michigan's Western District just stepped down under strange circumstances as well - I don't think she's mentioned in this article.

Quoted: Why has the administration fired U.S. attorneys with sterling track records? To make room for its political loyalists, critics say, and exert its last shred of control.

Quoted: "It's really remarkable to have a wholesale removal of an administration's own U.S. attorneys, particularly this deep into the term," said John Kroger, a federal prosecutor under Clinton and Bush who now teaches at Lewis & Clark Law School in Portland, Ore. "Clearly there was a concerted decision made to ask a bunch of them to leave. It suggests a desire to more tightly control policy. With the Democrats in control of Congress, perhaps it's because this is one of the few levers of government they have left."

Hmm, the Administration said they were all fired b/c of poor performance. That's just low... Whole article is interesting.

Quoted: ...it has also become clear that most of the prosecutors were overseeing significant public-corruption investigations at the time they were asked to leave. Four of the probes target Republican politicians or their supporters, prosecutors and other officials said.