Here's an article making the rounds on the liberal blogs: Perhaps the biggest "gotcha" so far on Rumsfeld's furious backpedalling.

In two weeks I'm going to Berlin to file for my Czech visa at the Czech Embassy there. (Yes, I've been in Prague for that long on a tourist visa, minus a few months in 2000 when I actually had residency.) If anybody has any tips (e.g. go to door #9 and wear a blue scarf) drop them in the comments bin.