I didn't watch the speech, I just read the commentary:

Betsy HP: Apparently Bush just said "Secretary of State Rumsfeld".

t barfs

Steph L: Hmmm. White House RPG, methinks.

Not watching, not listening.

Jesse: The real problem with watching Bush on the teevee is the optic pattern of his tie. Don't they have people to figure this stuff out ahead of time?

Seph L: ....So, I pictured the Cabinet, all running around the White House, pretending to do each others' jobs.

Okay, so I put the TV on. Did he *seriously* just say "Nobody likes to see dead people on their television screens."?!?

Betsy HP: Jess, what is making that tie do that? Do you think it will open up a hellmouth?

Steph L.: His people are probably already drunk. What can they do? No matter how much they try to prep him, it does no good.

Betsy HP: "I'm sure something will pop into my head here, but with all this pressure of a press conference, it just hasn't yet."

In response to being asked for his greatest regret as President.

There still could be WMD, you know.

"He put me on the spot here, and maybe I'm not as quick on my feet as I should be in coming up with one."

That's what makes it a press conference, not a speech, Mr. President.

Steph L.:

"I'm sure something will pop into my head here, but with all this pressure of a press conference, it just hasn't yet."

My God. You just can't make this shit up.

Betsy HP: He just started making a speech about how good freedom is.

Steph L.: You know how people order videotapes of the Super Bowl and watch it endlessly?

I wish I had some tapes of Clinton.

and a chaser...

Nutty: Not much to say about the Bush speech except to note that yes, that necktie was doing incredibly strange things. Also, as my roommate noted at top volume, "North Korea people" are generally known by their quainter, more convenient moniker of "North Koreans".

KristinT in Natter:

I must be wearing an especially provocative font.

erikaj in movies:

But I've just sat in one too many "you'll laugh, you'll cry," movies thinking I could've had a v-8.

I think we need the follow-up to Kristin's comment:

KristinT in Natter: I must be wearing an especially provocative font.

Gudanov: Sans-Serif really compliments your, um, eyes.

Deborah Grabien, in Literary:

Because if there's anything less porny than Anne Coulter, I don't want to meet it, ever.

Tim, in his thread, defending the faithful:

I've made fandom jokes in the past -- but my feeling is until you've walked a mile in my spock ears, you haven't earned the right.

In Natter:

Lilty Cash: I want to write a book called "Zen and the Art of Database Maintenance: There is No Maintenance, only ZOUL".

How sweet of Tim.

In a completely different direction, here's askye in, um, you know.

Way back on a SV mailing list I saw a post of someone's "great" story idea for Lex and Clark and how they could be together (and I assume with kids), her idea was:

Lex has his head cut off and reattached to a woman's body. That way Clark and Lex can have a normal relationship.

oh.my.god. (re: above post)

Rebecca Lizard in F2F:

Still, it doesn't matter, because the four-person rate has nothing to do with me because I'm not telling them four of us instead of two are going to be in the room on Saturday. I don't feel bad about that at all, either; I figure, when I went to Chicago with my mother and one of the women in the room right next to us brought a guy back to her room late one night and they had loud sex interspersed with loud sexy banter (the walls were very thin) until early morning-- I figure, you know, she didn't pay extra because she brought a guest back to the room one night, and in the extremely unlikely event that a hotel employee notices we suddenly have four people in our room instead of two I will easily and simply explain it by having sex with meara.