The blogosphere is abuzz with the interview Chris Wallace of Fox News conducted with former President Bill Clinton. In the interview, Wallace asks Clinton about his administration’s hunt for Bin Laden. It it widely accepted among the frothing everything-Bush-does-is-an-act-of-the-messiah right wing crowd that Clinton didn’t do enough to get Bin Laden before he ascended to [...]
Geekness
I’m Famous
Everyone gets their 15 minutes of fame and I guess I’m getting mine by proxy. Today my wife informed me that — according to her source — I remind someone of a character on…gulp…MTV’s Laguna Beach. Now, you might laugh. You might laugh quite hard. OK, stop laughing! But resembling a character (it’s Chase by [...]
Parade of Shame
As I listened to the president yesterday, I was stunned not by what I heard, but what I have never heard: reality. This president has proven quite adept at creating mythical strawmen and beating it into submission. Here is the president speaking about 9/11: As the horror of that morning grows more distant, there is [...]
Temporary Dial-Up
For the next day or so, I have to get onto the information superhighway using the internet’s Ford Festiva…dial-up. We just got our phone in a new house (longer post on that when it doesn’t involve the phone and a busy signal) but don’t have internet yet. So, I’m dialing in. It’s like driving that [...]