Δαφνη Ευτυχια Αρθουρος

I found myself awake and not sure why. Sometimes I wake up that way -- when I clearly haven't slept enough yet, and there's no discernable external stimulus to wake me, but %ding!% I'm awake. The predicted snow had fallen, though not much of it. And the last forecast I'd heard had said it was going to start as snow, then turn to rain, then freeze again, and basically be a pain to clear off the sidewalk if I waited too long ... so I turned on the telly to find out whether it was done with the snow portion so it would make sense to put on something warm and grab the shovel.

#blink# Oh. They're not talking about weather. And that's not a local face. It's the network. Saddam Hussein has been captured. The ramifications of that are going to be very, very interesting, after I clear off the sidewalk.

I'd be happier if they'd caught Osama bin Laden, but I do have to say I'm impressed. It still doesn't make me a Bush fan, but it does mean his opponents can't taunt, "And you couldn't even catch Saddam," at him now. (And I didn't think he would've been caught this soon under anyone else's command either; I just thought he'd be that good at vanishing.) What will make more of a difference one way or t'other is if we finally get an answer on the existence or nonexistence of those weapons of mass destruction that some people are convinced weren't there and other people are convinced are just too well hidden. Or if Bush and Ashcroft suddenly realize how dangerous their moves against civil liberties and due process have been, and reverse course on that front. *sigh* Still, it's a pretty significant PR matter that Hussein was captured now.