The Perils of Blogging at 5AM

Reader Mike points out two errors on my part.

First - John Kerry's proposal for a $.50/gallon hike in the gas tax was, in fact, ten years ago. While it's probably fair to say that a Kerry administration will be a taxapalooza, the gas tax hike has been off Kerry's table for a decade. He apparently never voted for such an increase (or much of anything else, as it happens).

Second - I misread the date of a press conference when I wrote the piece about the Boston city councilman scheduling a news conference to peddle phony pictures of GIs attacking Iraqi women. The conference took place a week ago, not yesterday. My error. Of course, it's still disgraceful that a Boston city official would try to make political hay out of photos that were such obvious fakes - but I did mess up the dates involved. I don't know that the councilman involved still believes in the Glob's rape story.

Gotta quit the morning blogging. Bleagh.