An important item here warning about the redirection of humanitarian aid to support the war on terror.

"You're doing a superb job. You're a strong secretary of defense and our nation owes you a debt of gratitude." -- Bush on Rumsfeld. "Secrecy and wishful thinking, the Pentagon official said, are defining characteristics of Rumsfeld's Pentagon...'They always want to delay the release of bad news - in the hope that something good will break'." -- Seymour Hersh on Rumsfeld (et al), in his continuing report for New Yorker.

Oh, here's a little item about the aforementioned Blogger facelift.