"The bottom line is I don't trust this president and his advisors". Not every Democrat has caved to Bush's martial fervor. Rep. Pete Stark makes it stunningly clear why he's voting against the Iraq war resolution. [Salon.com]

» Man, he nailed it.

As the EU welcomes in new member countries, I gottta wonder what the UK is going to do about the Euro.  How can they NOT support it?  I can just imagine the debate raging in Parliment "well the bloodey Poles and Estonians support it, why can't we?"

Probably my favorite new EU member country is Malta.  Here in San Francisco there's a restaurant named 'John's' which was famous - as it was featured in the movie 'the Maltese Falcon' and they actually HAD  a Maltese Falcon there - until - guess what?  It was stolen! 

[Marc's Voice]

» Well heck if I was the owner of that bar I'd have arranged to have it stolen.  It's a much better story!

As to the Euro, I'm looking forward to it.  But it's going to take a while for my countrymen to get used to the idea.   Remember we only, really, gave up our empire 50 years ago and these things die hard.