The two dumbest things I've heard all week:

From Pirates pitcher Kip Wells, on losing (by a lot) his past 6 road starts:
"I'm kind of struggling right now."

From a bonehead Republican on Fox News the other night, on Joseph Wilson, who reported in 2003 that the Bush Administration's allegations of Saddam Hussein importing uranium from Niger to build weapons of mass destruction:
"Wilson has been completely discredited."

Folks, the person "completely discredited" is George W. Bush, who in his 2003 State of the Union speech told the American public that Saddam Hussein must be toppled because he had sought nuclear fuel in Africa. This was the administration's keystone in convincing the American people that war in Iraq was necessary, and it was wrong. But once it and any notion of there being weapons of mass destruction in Iraq were proven wrong, the Bush administration started saying that the reason for war in Iraq was "democracy" or "the war on terrorism."

Terrorism, and things in general, are worse in Iraq than they've ever been. A suicide bomber killed 71 people there the other day, and many of them were children. We have created a hellish, explosive world there and it is getting worse.

Here's something most people don't know: the country with the most terrorist attacks over the past two years is India, not Iraq or Afghanistan. When do you hear anyone in the Bush administration calling India the center of the "war on terror" or even saying it is important. Hey India, get some oil and Bush will gladly blow you up too.

In the "good news" section of my blog, Michael Cooper reports this week in Time Magazine that he did in fact first learn the identity of an undercover C.I.A. operative from George W. Bush's right-hand man (aka puppetmaster) Karl Rove. Contradicting the White House version of the story, Cooper states that Rove did not merely confirm something Cooper already knew but instead openly supplied the indentity of the C.I.A. agent, acting as a "leak." Whether Rove's action was a crime is up to interpretation, and conveniently will be interpreted by a judge appointed by George W. Bush.

Anyway, whatever. What we get from this whole thing is that the Bush Administration spent almost two years fervently trying (and then forcing) a reporter to disclose the source who leaked the identity of an American spy. Bush went so far as to promise that whoever the leak was would be fired. But when the leak was found to be Karl Rove, Bush's right-hand man, the administration began backpedaling and basically saying that the situation is "no big deal" and "everyone knew already anyway."

If the leak had been a non-Republican he'd be cleaning out his desk.