Listening: Peaches vs. Clash mashup from London Booted. It hurts so very badly.

NY Times: How the consulate got so screwed up:

Facts, half-truths and passionately tendentious opinions get tumbled together on screen like laundry in an industrial dryer - without the softeners of fact-checking or reflection. Somehow, on all-cable news stations - CNN as well as Fox News - a story that rises or falls on basic and mostly verifiable facts blurs into just another developing news sensation alongside the latest Utah kidnapping or the Scott Peterson murder trial.

I just got back from the American consulate in Montreal, where I went to get a document notarized. They wouldn't let me in because I had a bag, nevermind that the bag was empty except for the papers to be stamped. The consulate was a tiny island in a state of war, in the middle of this large and perfectly peaceful city.

The consulate had good reasons to be paranoid, of course: terrorists are among us.

The meme continues to rise:

Listening: playlist of jackpine social club, from Jackpine social club.