Tinfoil hats, UFOs, and Radiohead

After watching Howard Dean being interviewed by Chris Wallace on Fox News Sunday, it became clear to me that I was going to need a new tinfoil hat. According to Dean, the weak and wobbly Dems, who for the past five years denied the the need for any war, let alone a war being fought in Iraq, are now vigorously engaged in the war on terror. Yep. New directions, national security and all that. Only thing is, you see, we should be going after Osama bin Laden by fighting the WOT in Afghanistan, not Iraq. Jeez. Dick, Karl, Rummy, how could you have missed that? How about this? Let's save everyone the inconvenience of fighting a war on the other side of the world; why don't we just fight the war on terror online? Wouldn't that be so much easier? Then we could all make happy with the Seattle Hug the Earth crowd, whose commemorative to the 9/11 attacks will include such deep-thought issues as diversity in immigration. Oh, yeah - a healing drumming circle will take place in the morning. People are urged to bring a drum or rattle, and a chair or blanket to sit on. Om.

While adjusting my tinfoil hat, I found this piece: a photographer shooting the live Radiohead concert back in June inadvertently got some shots of a UFO hovering nearby, presumably monitoring the satellite missile launch from Vandenburg AFB. See, there was all this secret spy satellite stuff on board the launch, and the aliens want to keep their eye on us to make sure we don't goof up the galaxy with our immature nonsense like war and pollution and oil . . . Or maybe they just dig Radiohead.