History News Network. Goed.

Here‘s a good column by Jill Nelson of MSNBC about “presidential lust” — Clinton’s was for a “piece on the side,” W’s is for war.

Here‘s a CSM piece about the return of the imperial presidency.

Here‘s the closest thing you’ll get to a mea culpa from today’s journalists. My goodness it is so goddamned lame and carefully worded so as not to admit any wrong-doing by the press.

You see, they sort of helped the administration sell us on a bogus Al-Qaeda-Saddam link that has fooled the most ignorant and incurious of Americans into supporting this also bogus war.

Ooopsy. I’m sure they’ll try to do better next time, won’t they?

I mean, hell, this mistake on their part may only cost tens of thousands of innocent people their lives but, hey, they’re only human, right?

Surely, we can forgive them for their little mistakes, can’t we?