There is an INSANE BIRD trying to break into the house.

I interrupt the post I was trying to write about confusing protesters with this bulletin regarding birds: A bird wants to come in.

It's been attacking the back window intermittently since I got home, which is about half an hour ago. It sits on the sill, dives up and pecks, then settles back down on the sill for a second before doing it again. This makes a really loud banging noise every time, but the bird seems unhurt - except, maybe, for whatever's going on in its little birdy head that makes it so determined to get inside.

I was in the kitchen making tea and anpan for most of this time period. Assuming birdy eyes work like human ones, it could theoretically see me while I was standing by the stove, but about ten minutes ago I went to sit in the living room on the other side of the house.

A minute or two after I moved around I heard it stop. I thought, "Oh, good, the bird has come to its senses and decided to give up on people houses and go live in a nest someplace." Then I heard a bang from in front of me. I looked up and saw a little birdy head peeking in the front window. IT CAME AROUND TO TRY THE OTHER SIDE. The bird knows where I am.

It only did that for a couple seconds before going back. I was about to write, "It's stopped now," but I just heard another bang. We're up to the forty-five minute mark, I think.

I just now remembered this, but I noticed yesterday that the birds had finally completely emptied the feeders. IS THAT WHAT IT WANTS?

Confusing Tea Party Image Of The Day

Outside of the Capital South metro stop, some people had a sign which said, on one side, "Are you a spy for the English?" On the other side was a picture of Obama with a tag attached to him saying "Made in England," and a Hitler moustache markered on.

There were three or four of these people, and they seemed fairly organized: they were covering all parts of the station entrance pretty effectively, they had pamphlets, and they'd made up a catchphrase to use when offering them to people. (Though it was something like "Are you ready and waiting for a solution to the present crisis?", which, I think you will agree, is not a very good catchphrase.)

This being the case, I feel that it's only right to assume that the sign is the result of deliberate planning, and that it accurately conveys the group's message. Their message is that Obama is Hitler, that Hitler was, apparently, English, and that we may all be English spies. I think this is reasonably clear. My only questions, really, are 1) whether we have recently overturned some scheme of Bonaparte's, and 2) whether we will be romancing any bluestockings. If so, then I am obviously all for it.