In case you haven't heard, Bernie Ebbers was found guilty today on all nine counts of economic malfeasance. It's been a good month for corporate justice!

The nine criminal counts against Ebbers -- securities fraud, conspiracy and seven counts of making false filings to the Securities and Exchange Commission -- carry up to 85 years in prison. He will be free on bail until sentencing.

The conviction comes more than two years after an internal auditor began asking questions about curious accounting at WorldCom, touching off a scandal that eventually unearthed $11 billion in cooked books.

Now I'm not usually one to gloat in the impending imprisonment of a criminal, but . . Lock him up! Throw away the key! Put him in with Schillinger! (TPCQ: "Ha, HA!")

A Good Article about Hezbollah

Check out this good article about Hezbollah from DAWN, an English-language publication in Pakistan (they do good work).

Hezbollah denies it is a "militia". Instead it insists that there is a distinction between the militias that prosecuted the civil war, and the "resistance" that forced the Israeli military to leave southern Lebanon under fire, gaining it huge admiration across the Middle East.

But in the US and elsewhere including most recently in a non-binding vote of the European Parliament the word used for Hezbollah is not resistance but "terrorist", a definition that is confounded by the complex realities Hezbollah presents on the ground, not least its existence as a legitimate political party with nine MPs.

A little something to keep in mind when Dubya starts in about how they need to disarm. (But the Israeli settlers can all keep their weapons.)

TimeWaster™

Check out the Stupid Elvis Flash. Hey, it's got Hello Kitty and HomestarRunner.

Today I'm listening to: Public Enemy! Classic.