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Jan. 28 2010 - 9:01 pm | 33 views | 0 recommendations | 1 comment

Goodbye bitterness, hello happiness! Plus: Joe Lieberman, hands down winner of waterboarding contest

A few readers mentioned that my last post sounded a bit “bitter” and “angry.” That’s certainly possible–it’s perhaps why I’m about to embark on a mini-vacation. I’ve been traveling for the past 48 hours, and will be traveling for the next 72, so I won’t have another post until Monday or Tuesday. But, going forward, I promise to find the silver lining in every atrocity, the upside to each reported injustice. 

Thanks also to the readers(especially Mark, Jaime, Vickie, and Kim) for sharing their (satirical!) waterboard top three. Joe Lieberman was the hands down winner–btw, I saw him at a press conference the other day in Baghdad, and I can sympathize with that pick–with my buddy Don Rumsfeld a close second. 

 So say we all.


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