The Most Important News Today: It’s Fnarf’s birthday!
Also, Obama Is “Confident” Congress Will Back a Strike on Syria: The president envisions an efficient airstrike that punishes President Bashar al-Assad for his suspected use of chemical weapons against civilians. Our missiles will certainly be greeted as liberators:
Seated at a table in the Cabinet Room between House Speaker John A. Boehner (R-Ohio) and House Minority Leader Nancy Pelosi (D-Calif.), Obama stressed that the military plan developed by the Pentagon is “proportional, it is limited, it does not involve boots on the ground.” He added: “This is not Iraq, and this is not Afghanistan.”
The Top Five Arguments on Striking Syria: For and against.
The Best Arguments Against? GOP leaders Eric Cantor and John Boehner just said they want it.
The Building That Melted a Car: With the combination of its concave surface and glorious sunshine.
Nickelsville Moves to New Locations: A bizarrely cutesy story about it.
Yeesh, Washington Post: Runs girls-brought-those-rapes-on-themsleves op-eds over the weekend.
What a Dingleberry:
Dennis Rodman, the former United States basketball star, returned Tuesday to North Korea, where he said he planned to see “my friend” Kim Jong-un, the dictator whose country until recently was threatening to annihilate the United States with nuclear weapons.
Rodman says he’s not going to try free a prisoner or anything on the trip, which is funded by Paddy Power, a reportedly “Irish gambling operation.” Rodman says he’s simply going “on another basketball diplomacy tour.”
Today in Seattle and 22 Other Cities: Wear your gayest rain slicker to the protest of Russia’s government, which is terrorizing gays and lesbians. In Seattle, it’s from 4:30 p.m. to 6:00 p.m. on the sidewalk outside the Russian Consular Residence (3726 East Madison Street, Seattle, WA 98112).