Recipe Before a Tour

Here is the formula Pakistan use to prepare for their series.
1. One of the assistant coaches is fired, hired, or resigns.
2. Shoaib is left out of the initial squad.
3. Shoaib is added to the squad.
4. Yousuf misses a game because of his family committments.
5. Nasim Ashraf reverses himself on some issue.

Strange Logic

Pakistan has now added Shoaib to the team citing Gul's injury. The initial reason given for Shoaib's omission was that he was not match fit otherwise he would have made the team without a doubt. If that was true then why replace an injured player with an injured player? Why not send Shabbir or if there are problems there someone new?

Parents of a child with the mental capacity of a three month old have opted to surgically stunt her physical growth to keep her manageable(http://www.cnn.com/2007/HEALTH/conditions/01/04/ashley.treatment.ap/index.html). I only wish that Paris, Brittany and Lindsey's parents had acted so conscientiously when they were growing up.

Don't Shoot the Messenger

Al-Maliki's comments about punishing the guy who took the unauthorized video were rather curious (http://www.cnn.com/2007/WORLD/meast/01/09/maliki.hussein/index.html). He believed that taking the video was illegal but remained astonishingly quiet about all the shouting and dancing that went along.
Also Blair commented that, "the crimes that Saddam committed doesn't excuse the manner of his execution, and the manner of the execution doesn't excuse the crimes. Now I think that is a perfectly sensible position that most people would reasonably accept." Now that Saddam has not been excused how about not excusing the misbehaviors of those at the execution and punishing them (and I don't mean the guy with the phone).
The militias on which Al-Maliki's government rests have committed crimes against humanity but he has not put any of their leaders on trial. Infact when the U.S. Army at one point tried to go after the Mehdi Army they were dissuaded from doing so.

Is Seinfeld Writing for Bush?

Now we have the term surge. It reminds me of a Seinfeld episode where his uncle is lifting a book from a bookshelf and Seinfeld alerts the security guy to teach his uncle a lesson. The security guy on his walkie talkie to other security guys, "Swarm! Swarm!"