Just when you think the Department of Defense is too busy with actually physically bombing things to worry about nutty mind-control schemes or mosquito assassins, they come out with another freaky report that gives a dark and terrifying glimpse into a future of warfare featuring insanity-inducing drugs, brain-scanning, and “distributed human-machine systems.” In other words, just a day in the life of Cindy McCain, wife of the world’s oldest cyborg… MORE »

The DoD prepared a report investigating the work of the DoD’s pre-war intelligence outfit headed by Douglas Feith, the dumbest fucking guy on the planet. The result of that report? The Office of Special Plans made a lot of shit up, misled Congress, spun and abused intelligence, and didn’t break any laws. MORE »

• Tehran is ready to negotiate with the UN on a range of issues not named “uranium enrichment.” [WP, NYT, BBC]

• Poll shows most Americans are still plenty scared of Bin Laden. [CNN]
• Marines to begin recalling reserves to active duty, as recruitment goals fall short. [LAT]
• Aid money flowing to Lebanon having a hard time finding relief agencies other than Hezbollah. [NYT]
• Israel halts withdraw from West Bank settlements as Lebanon becomes focus of government apparently incapable of multitasking. [WP]
• Senator Hillary Clinton is dithering on a AIDS funding bill — either to get more cash for New York or to make herself look good in the south. [WP]
• Americans tired of Iraq, want to go home. [NYT]
• Richard Armitage, number two at the State Department, met with Bob Woodward around the time Bob Woodward says he learned Valerie Plame’s identity and top secret job. [NYT]
• Anna Taylor Diggs, the federal judge who ruled against Bush and his NSA warrantless wiretapping, is a card-carrying member of the ACLU. [NYT]
• More states adding online “meth registries” to help connect redneck speed freaks. [USAT]

• YouTube, vloggers, and predictions for 2008 that comprise the wet dreams of the vloggerati. [James Kelm's Home Page]

• New Jersey’s got debts that no honest state can pay. [Gawker]
• The new and improved Bill Keller: now with an army of “demi-human reporter-goons.” [Rude Pundit]
• Joe Lieberman likes splitting hairs as much as he likes combing them over. [Roger Ailes]
• Europeans stunned by speed with which CIA starts front-companies. [Counterterrorism Blog]

* Soledad O’Brien: Wednesday’s “Hump Day Hussy.” [Evil Discussor] MORE »

Sure, but wouldn’t that qualify as “impulse control disorders”? MORE »

* The Force is strong in you, grasshopper, but you are not a wonk’d master yet. [Unrequited Narcissism] MORE »

* John Negroponte will get Bill Frist’s phone records when he pries them from his cold dead hands! [Rude Pundit] MORE »

* Karl should’ve been doing Scotty’s job this whole time. Way to stonewall’em Karl! [Think Progress] MORE »

* In a simple twist of fate, Michael Moore may now begin funding anti-Michael Moore website MooreWatch, just so someone will pay attention to him. [The Mayor of Simpleton] MORE »

Above, hand-drawn directions to Donald Rumsfeld’s house, left on a table at a Dupont Starbucks by Eric Ruff two years ago (and redacted by Center for American Progress). MORE »