News bites (news bleeds....)

Regarding "Serbian protesters trash American embassy in Belgrade" - I have two thoughts on this, aside from feeling my first Cold War jitters since childhood. One - seeing as there were Marines inside the embassy compound at the time, I'm extremely glad no one was shot, despite the Marines having every right to defend the building. Someone in charge showed uncharacteristic restraint and kept a bad situation from getting much worse. Second, a word of advice to the protesters - if you really want Kosovo back, chanting "Death to Albanians!" probably isn't the way to make it happen. Serbia's effort to "cleanse" Kosovo's largely Albanian population is a big reason they seceded in the first place. Perhaps an olive branch, y'all, instead of the trailer park husband "Fuck you, bitch! You ain't leavin' me!!" approach.

As for "McCain possibly smooches lobbyist-Gate", everything's pretty much been said already in the news. Coggblogger is an Obama democrat (for the record), but it does seem pretty shady that the Times endorsed McCain (contributing to the collapse of Romney) knowing full well that they were about to unleash a story that completely smears him. Good to know what side the paper is on, as if that wasn't clear before. However, this is just the kind of thing that galvanizes Republicans, which isn't good because we're going to need them nice and fractured in order to lock this thing up.

[AUTHOR'S NOTE - The title of this piece refers to the Def Leppard classic "Love Bites (love bleeds)". Coggblogger, until recently, thought the lyrics were "Love bites, love mean!" I was corrected by Mrs. Coggblogger, who still gives me shit about my "heartsick caveman" interpretation of the song. But seeing as she's the only remaining Frank Stallone fan, I consider her musical opinions to be null and void]