Random thoughts for a Friday...

This has not been a good week for Karl Rove. The news all seems to be breaking in Kerry's favor -- even the little things:

The Bush campaign abruptly stopped using the 1970s hit "Still the One" at campaign rallies today (Oct. 29) after the songwriter, no fan of the president, claimed the Republicans never got permission.

John Hall, a former Democratic county legislator in upstate New York, co-wrote "Still the One" and recorded it with his band Orleans in 1976. He complained today about the campaign playing the song at the president's events.

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Hall wrote "Still the One" with his then-wife, Johanna D. Hall. The two, as well as surviving members of the band, are supporters of Democratic candidate John Kerry and don't want their work used to promote Bush's re-election.

For the record, I don't think Bush ever was The One.

And on another topic...

Doonsbury is back in the news:

In Garry Trudeau's comic, the voice of Cheney directs a caricature of President George Bush to tell a reporter to "go f--- himself."

A spokesman for Kansas City-based Universal Press Syndicate said at least 20 newspapers have contacted the company to complain about the cartoon for Saturday editions.

Have any of the people who complain when people repeat Dick Cheney's language ever chastised the vice president for his potty mouth? If so, I must have missed it. All I ever saw was a bunch of people making excuses for him. He was provoked. He'd had a bad day. This was a long time coming. Awwww. Poor boopsie. When you went home to your wife, Lynn -- the woman who published a steamy lesbian fantasy, but who is horrified and insulted if someone refers to her lesbian daughter as "a lesbian" -- did you kiss her with that mouth?