Iranaphobia.

This evening as I was driving home from the market (and no, Miz C, I didn't get hit on once -- maybe because I wasn't wielding a box of Tampax?), I heard Terry Gross interviewing Seymour Hersh about U.S. plans to invade Iran.

Think it won't happen, that we don't have enough troops to stage a third front? Hersh points out that "we" don't need troops -- it'll be a brief air assault, forceful but not devastating. "Here's what we can do to you," it'll say. "You can back off your nukes, or you can watch us come back and finish the job."

Meanwhile the Dems apparently are so surprised to be in charge that they can't get their shit together long enough to put an alternative proposal on the table. Can we survive two more years of this?

You can listen to the "Fresh Air" interview here. Or read Hersh's piece in this week's New Yorker here.

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Listening to Terry Gross led me to this evening's entertainment as she tossed in a brief interview linked to tonight's episode of "Frontline" on PBS. Part of a series called "News War," it looks at how newspapers are dumping their foreign correspondents because it's too "costly" to cover the world. That we'll soon be down to three monopolies covering the world: the Times, the Wall Street Journal and USA Today. God help us.

"Frontline" comes on at 9 in this 'hood, so if you read this in the next hour, you have time to check it out, too. Or check it out here.

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Currently listening to: Martin Sexton (thanks, Juggler!)

Currently reading: "No Touch Monkey! And Other Travel Lessons Learned Too Late" by Ayun Halliday

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