Needless to say, Forrest is a pretty easy guy to denounce. This was a political gift, in a way, to Barbour. I mean, a white Southern Republican like Barbour could get himself into some trouble for denouncing, say, Robert E. Lee. But Forrest? Is Barbour really that worried about losing the white supremacist vote?

Obviously the shutdown of the Internet or the threat to have the military fire on its own people didn’t save Egypt’s now-former president Hosni Mubarak. But they provide the building blocks for how other nations might handle this crisis, out of the watchful eye of the world. This could already be happening in Iran, or Libya, or Bahrain. Mubarak may not have saved his own autocracy, but he may end up saving others.

Reader DL found a very interesting email among the HBGary emails: Chet Uber emailed — after having tried to call — HBGary CEO Gary Hoglund on June 23, 2010.

The Madison School District will shut down today, after large percentages of teachers called in sick to protest Governor Scott Walker’s proposed budget bill that would strip them and most other public employees in Wisconsin of most of their collective bargaining rights. Thousands of teachers, students, activists and other public workers are expected to descend on the Capitol this morning for another day of protests against the budget plan. Hundreds stayed overnight inside the Rotunda, setting up makeshift tents and bunking for the night.

We’ve known the outlines of these details about Curveball before. But it sure adds to the picture of the US dialing up the intelligence it needed — however flimsy — to start a war.

The news from Iran is truly disturbing as we hear that members of parliament are calling for the arrest and execution of leaders of the opposition Mir Hossein Mousavi and Mehdi Karroubi and learn of the deaths of two protesters yesterday.

They shouldn’t have messed with Glennzilla.

Regrets Curvball’s had just a few, which is more than the Bush Administration can mention.

Dr. John and Jools Holland — Four Hand Boogie Woogie.

While President Obama told Law Enforcement Against Prohibition member MacKenzie Allen, a retired deputy sheriff during an interview with the organization:

We have to think more about drugs as a public health problem

his comments on the new federal drug new budget show things in a different light.