I got home Monday night, and the damned Internet wasn’t working. Or, more accurately, my connection to the Internet wasn’t working. So that sucked. I had to schedule a tech visit for the next day “between 8 and 12” and my satellite receiver keep freezing up when I played a recorded show for more than half an hour or so. So, no Internet, no NetFlix, and no teevee makes for a very dull evening. The tech guy didn’t get out here until 11:00 (not that I’m complaining – I’m usually just happy when they find the house), and it turned out to be a bad trap out at the road. So all was well again by 12:30 or so – obviously too late to drive 35-40 minutes to work.

Otherwise, it was a wet rainy day. Until last night, when it started to snow. There isn’t all that much where I live – a couple of inches, so I won’t bother plowing – but my drive in to work looks pretty shitty, and they’re saying we’re gonna wind up with about a foot of snow by the time the ends on Thursday. I’d prefer no snow at all, or so much snow that I can’t even think about driving to work. This in-between shit is just an annoyance.

So we officially found out that the CIA tortures people on our behalf for no apparent reason – or at least not for any useful information. So, do they do this because they get off on it? Were they initially “well-intentioned” and then just couldn’t help themselves? Or were there just not enough people that hated the United States of Hypocrisy already, and they wanted to make sure we’d have a never-ending supply?

I dunno. The only real news here is that the Senate Intelligence Committee actually had the guts to admit that this torture resulted in no useful information. I expect to see a flurry of indictments in the next few days.

Ha! Just kidding. You can’t get an indictment when you have clear video of a cop strangling a guy to death – you sure as hell aren’t gonna even begin to prosecute anybody over torturing a bunch of those terrorist sand you-know-whatters.

Cue up the Lee Greenwood.