So, was today the longest day, or is it tomorrow?

I get so confused.

Either way, y’know, it eventually gets dark out.

There’s a documentary on the History Channel right now. It’s about the history of fertilizer. I caught it as they were discussing bat guano, and stopped at the sight of millions of bats leaving their caves for the night to eat some 500 tons of mosquitoes (go, bats!). Then I watched through that, the segment on the South American Bird Poop War of 1879 that resulted in Bolivia losing its entire coastline (yes, that’s true), and then finally, a segment on turning cow manure into fertilizer with the aid of worms.

So they have this guy going down his row of dirt troughs telling us about the thousand-square-feet of cow poop and worms, and they detail the entire disgusting process (it was truly gross because they started from the dairy farm cows and fresh manurel), and finally, they show us the end result. But while the owner of this worm fertilizer farm was glowing about his seven million worms per trough, and the narrator and he described the process and the end result of the fertilizer, I had one question: Where do the worms go?

Where do the worms go?

What the hell do they do with the worms when they’re done with them, sixty days after starting the fertilization process?

They never said.

This is going to drive me crazy. They never said what they do with the millions of worms. I mean, sure, they’d probably make a great addition to the fertilizer, but I doubt the guy wants to lose seven million worms every time a trough is ready.

Where do the worms go?

You know, I’m a pretty good driver most of the time. I stay pretty close to or within the speed limit, don’t generally run red lights or drive dangerously. But I have never, ever, ever been able to talk myself out of a moving violation.

Until today.

I went through a red light from a left-turn lane. There was no question it was red, and I ran it—and there was a cop right behind me, and I didn’t notice her. She pulled me over, I had no explanation. I just dug my license out of my wallet, rolled down my window, and waited. The police officer said, “It wasn’t even close.” I said, “I know. I’m sorry.” I figured she was going to write me a ticket. Then she asked me if I had a good explanation, and I said no, I didn’t. I said I usually don’t do things like this. She asked “You mean you usually don’t get caught, or you usually don’t do them?” “Don’t do them. You can check my record.” I think she already had. So she tried one last time and said, “Can you give me a really good reason why I shouldn’t write you a ticket?” and I said no. I said I wish I could, but I did something stupid and I have no good explanation. I said I was rushing to mail my friend a birthday present, but that wasn’t a good enough reason to run a red light. I told her I was being a jerk. She said, “No, don’t say that word. Say you were using poor judgment.”

She let me off with a warning. I was stunned. This never happens to me. I was expecting the points and the fine. I deserved it. It would only be the third moving violation in my entire driving career (two speeding tickets). I’m still shocked that I didn’t get the ticket. Glad, but shocked.

Must be my lucky day.

So that deal that Abbas wants—the one where Israel gives all the concessions and Fatah says that honest, really, truly, they’re going to stop terrorism this time? I’m thinking not so much.

Two armed Palestinians were killed in a gunfight with an IDF force in a village near Jenin Tuesday night, eyewitnesses reported.

According to the report, local gunmen opened fire at the force that entered the village accompanied by a military bulldozer. An al-Quds Brigades commander and an al-Aqsa Martyrs Brigades members were killed in the incident.

Do I truly need to point out that Al Aqsa is the openly terrorist part of Fatah?

The IDF reported that fire was opened at the soldiers on several occasions during an arrest raid in the village, and an explosive device was hurled at their direction. In the course of the operation, the soldiers spotted two gunmen, shot at them and killed them.

Two M-16 rifles, a pistol and some ammunition were found on the men’s bodies, the IDF said.

And look at that. M-16s. Gee. Those wouldn’t be the ones that the American army gave Fatah to protect themselves against Hamas would they?

No. Of course not. These are the good terrorists. Honest.

The UN Human Rights Council was formed from the wreckage of the UN Human Rights Commission, which used the commission to bash Israel year after year, has turned into, well, a clone of its predecessor. It ends the year with: A permanent Israel-bashing resolution, and a free pass for Cuba, Darfur, and other human rights violators like North Korea, Zimbabwe, Saudi Arabia, etc., etc., etc.

Members of the UN’s new human rights watchdog on Tuesday formally agreed to continue their scrutiny of Israel while halting investigations into Cuba and Belarus - a move that immediately drew fire from Canada and the United States.

The decision was part of a package of reforms adopted by the members of the Human Rights Council to change how it conducts its future work, including how and when to launch investigations into some of the world’s worst rights offenders.

The council, which was formed last year to replace the discredited UN Human Rights Commission, passed the compromise package despite objections from Canada over plans to continue singling out Israel for scrutiny by the global body.

The European Union, which played a key role in the negotiations, said ahead of the meeting that it remained to be seen how the council can perform on the basis of the agreement.

”The package is certainly not ideal, but we have a basis we can work with,” said Ambassador Michael Steiner of Germany, which currently holds the EU presidency. ”The package must prove its value in practice.”

The basis that they can work with? It’s this:

The new agreement contains an agenda for future council meetings that provides for regular discussions of ”human rights violations and implications of the Israeli occupation of Palestine and other occupied Arab territories.”

The council is a sham, and was exposed as such from the beginning. When even the WaPo notices something smells on the council, you know there’s something wrong.

Your tax dollars at work, people.