When someone says something stupid -- I mean, poisonously, ludicrously stupid -- the advertisers on that site have to take a stand. I hate to say it, but that�s what it comes to in Ashcroft�s Amerikkka: if you express callous contempt for four lynched Americans strung up by a raving mob, there�s a chance you might lose advertisers looking to court a moderate audience.---Lileks on the Daily Kos flap. (Kos said "screw 'em" about the "merceneries" burned to death in Fallujah last week.)

Wonkette said (I'm having major computer troubles and it's hard to erify my sources): "Kos's original offense, combined with his current stance? It's sort of like eating a baby and then apologizing for burping afterwards."

We wanted to get close to the magical #1000 and we didn't want to go too far afield to do it, so it was Roseville today. On the way, we stopped at the Roseville TB depot to give two travel bugs to a Norwegian so they can really add the miles. We've been there twice before, but "coordinates? we don't need no steenkin' coordinates" so it took awhile for us to find the right tree. At least we got to watch some magpies chasing a hawk away from their nest.

On to new caches! Unfortunately, the first one we tried was missing, and I hadn't seen all the purple frownies. That was a disappointment. From there, we went to a park. I'd typed in the wrong numbers, so for awhile we were trying to figure out how to get into this private land. Once we got the right numbers, oddly, it was easy to find this cache in a lamppost. Then we went to one at the Amtrak station, but unfortunately didn't find the cache, just the magnet backing. Next to the Veteran's Memorial downtown. We got to it just as a family decided to have a reunion and lengthy chat right in front of it. So we walked down a block or two, then came back, and finally they left. Rich walked behind the monument and picked up the cache. There I had the absolutely perfect goodie, a very nice American Flag pin with a heart shape.

We went to a bike trail and looked for one called Miner's Mystery. It's a rock. Then came one I've wanted to get for awhile. At the Roseville Galleria, there's a tower. The cache is called Rapunzel. I was surprised when the cache placer, LilDevil, had trouble with our "Going to the Tent" cache, on the 10th level of the parking garage, because I had thought "Rapunzel" would be up. I was sure of it, despite his forgetting the trick, so we went up the elevator to the second level. There, as promised, is a security camera. I developed quite an interst in the bird's nests, and in fact got a nice picture of a housefinch egg. We went up and down a couple of times, and settled on the area, and then when Rich found it and grabbed it, he dropped it! That's because there were actually two of them there! Apparently the "lost" one wasn't. We went down and rescued the other one and then signed the original. I asked if finding two 4-difficulty hides amounted to an 8-difficulty!

At the other mall, across the street, there's a lightpost cache in front of REI. Then we walked along a sidewalk (hard to find parking in this town!) to a swamp behind 7-11 for another sizeable cache. After that, we found the firehouse where we're supposed to park for Brianne's Cache and walked the half-mile to it. It's a nice big cache under a log.

The next one was a toughie. It's in a quarry started in 1856, and it is a hard hide, especially when HAL, the GPSr, began acting up. I spotted it, a hollowed-out sawed off branch. Wow. I was quite chuffed, and when we went back we found the easy way. (We came in like mountain goats, though nowhere near as gracefully!)

We still can't figure out how to get to the caches behind Sierra College, but found another one south of it, called "Alex's Marbles". However, I don't really think it's ALEX who lost his marbles!! Last but not least, #990, we found a slightly different lightpost cache in Maidu Park at the Korean War memorial.

Glenn: Seems the Clinton administration thought missile defense more important, too....