The top news story at the moment over at my home town newspaper is about a driver of a red van threatening to set fire to his vehicle downtown. This probably wouldn't be such a big deal except that my town is Washington, DC and it's a couple of days before the Great Glassbowl Migration (aka the Inauguration). Even though the color-coded Fatherland security alert has been dropped, because there is supposedly no rumors of anything disrupting the ceremony, security is still tight downtown and the street closings have already begun. The parade is marked with both supporter areas and protestor areas and the paraders have been instructed not to look at Bush because...well, I guess that would make the Secret Service nervous, if not Bush himself. (Or maybe they would see he's got no clothes...no, that's earlier, when he actually makes his speech.)

But, to get back to the story of the hour, J noticed one particular misstatement by an FBI spokesperson:

"It's domestic, not terrorism," an FBI spokeswoman told the Associated Press.

This implies that something domestic can't be terrorism. Don't forget that the single largest act of terrorism on American soil before 9/11 was committed domestically in Oklahoma. Who would have thought that such things would have been so easily forgotten?