Keep on the sunny side...

Billmon may be holed up in Jordan with a case of Saladin's Revenge, but that doesn't prevent him from accentuating the positive.

On hearing that the Iraq council head killed in Baghdad car bomb blast, he writes

Isn't it just like the liberal media to only focus on the bad news? I mean, what about all the Iraqi politicians who didn't get blown up today? Don't they deserve some ink?

To which I can only reply, yeah! And what about all the Bush administration officials that haven't been caught up in a lie, scandal or disasterous public policy?

Well, OK, that is going a bit too far...