From Eric, July 6 (Paris) I thought this was interesting. I've been hearing rumors about it, though thank you Jeff Jawer of StarIQ.com for sending a link in an email this morning, under the subject header, "Breakthrough in Idiocy." I think we may have found the identity of the Bush administration's court astrologer. And speaking of (everyone all together now), Happy Solar Return, George! http://snipurl.com/g248 I'll be back soon with a bit more on Rove, probably the most important of many important stories developing at the moment. However, as I am now in the great curve pulling about four Gs getting my writing done for the week, you may not be hearing from me for a day or so. But I am sitting here wondering what Jude is thinking about it. Here is a link from truthout.org to a recent Newsweek story. Really, I think you should know all about this one. It involves how Bush lied about Iraq developing nuclear weapons in the 2003 State of the Union Address. Then, when a senior diplomat experienced on the issue called him on it, someone in the Bush administration "outed" the diplomat's wife, Valerie Plame, as a CIA agent. That was true -- she was involved in the (actual) prevention (actual) of weapons of mass destruction getting into the hands of (actual) terrorists. But that someone taking revenge blew her cover and the cover of her entire spy network, threatening the program and the lives of United States and foreign agents who had worked for years to keep the world just a little safer. And that someone appears to have been a guy Karl Rove, Bush's top political strategist and a man you might call the engineer of the modern world. Here is some background. http://www.truthout.org/docs_2005/070305A.shtml Happy Cancer New Moon.     e