Quickhits

Sorry, just lazy blogging today. Several more things that caught my eye.

Torture promoting, Israel defending Alan Dershowitz is back in an editorial in the LATimes where he proposes to redefine "civilian" so that the death toll in Lebanon doesn't look as bad. Funny, I don't remember Dershowitz trying to redifine "civilian" over Iraq, or Chechnya, or Afghanistan, or the Balkans, or Rwanda, or Darfur, or.....

The court cases for Bush "dissenters" who were arrested and released around Bush appearances in the election year of 2004 are starting to come around. After publicly refusing Iraqi-style democracy, I wonder if Putin would accept this kind of democracy.

War in the horn of Africa is getting closer as the Ethiopians have occupied a second Somali town.

And, elements of the Pacific food chain are being disrupted as warmer sea waters are affecting the number of krill.