yellow jerseys and yellow politicians

background entertainment: Rolling Stones Live [HBO], Stargate SG1 season premier [taped from the Sci-Fi Channel]

Hoorah! Lance Armstrong captured the yellow jersey in the Tour de France today in a grueling ride up L'Alpe d'Huez. He's not out of the woods by any means; his nearest competitor is less than 1 minute behind him in the overall standings. Nevertheless, I have confidence that Armstrong will end up winning his 5th consecutive Tour.

Meanwhile, on the home front, the White House seems to have convinced George Tenet and the CIA to fall on their collective sword over the Iraq/Niger uranium fiasco. Shrub conveniently dismisses the evidence showing that the CIA urged his people not to include the bogus evidence in his State of the Union address.

"Crazy Legs" Rumsfeld weighs in with a typically pithy comment: "End of Story." Sure it is, Donny Boy. This man lives on wishful thinking; he probably eats it for breakfast.

According to the CIA, their warnings made it all the way up to "Dick" Cheney's office. It seems that either he is keeping Dubya "out of the loop" intentionally or, more likely, G.W. "Warmonger" Bush and his master Karl Rove are simply lying through their smirks. In other words, Standard Operating Procedure for the most corrupt Administration since Harding's.