Le Poisson
Le Poisson
How I love le poisson!
Love to chop
And to serve
Little fish.

Bush, on the VA Tech shootings:

"If you are a parent and your child is, you know, doing strange things on the Internet, pay attention to it and not be afraid to ask for help and not be afraid to say `I am concerned about what I am seeing," Bush said. "I think it's very important for us not to comment until it's all said and done, but that other cases there have been warning signals — that if an adult for example had taken the signals seriously, perhaps tragedy could have been avoided."

I don't think I do anything *but* strange things on the internet.

Timelies all!

"Have some friendly advice: sell to Omni m'lad. It's closer to Penthouse than science." (from a filk of "And the band played 'Waltzing Matilda'" called "Three laws of Thermo" about a would-be writer's attempt to get his science fiction published)

Anyhow....we've got a very busy weekend coming up. Great Big Sea concert tomorrow night, JHU homecoming lacrosse game and a friend's birthday party Saturday and a wedding gig with 3LF Sunday.

-t, awesome, thanks!

I don't think I do anything *but* strange things on the internet.

Message to Dana's parents: Pay attention to it and not be afraid to ask for help and not be afraid to say "I am concerned about what I am seeing." Because if an adult for example takes the signals seriously, perhaps tragedy can be avoided.

Or, um, words to that effect.

So, what happens now that Gonzales has been exposed as a lying incompetent? I mean, do what happens if he's exposed as a lying incompetent but he still doesn't resign and Bush doesn't fire him? Do we just go on with our lives and agree to never talk about it again? (At least until Bush's executive privilege claims wind through the courts?)

I used to read Omni a lot, mostly for the stories, which seemed racier than other scifi magazines.

Makes sense since it was a Bob Guccione publication (aka Mr. PENTHOUSE).

Makes sense since it was a Bob Guccione publication (aka Mr. PENTHOUSE).

Oh - that rings a bell too....

ION, some more highlights of Bush's speech in Ohio today:

"Politics comes and goes, but your principles don't. And everybody wants to be loved — not everybody. ... You never heard anybody say, `I want to be despised, I'm running for office.'"

"The best thing about my family is my wife. She is a great first lady. I know that sounds not very objective, but that's how I feel. And she's also patient. Putting up with me requires a lot of patience."

"There are jobs Americans aren't doing. ... If you've got a chicken factory, a chicken-plucking factory, or whatever you call them, you know what I'm talking about."

"There are some similarities, of course" between Iraq and Vietnam. "Death is terrible."

"I've been in politics long enough to know that polls just go poof at times."

As he has before, Bush told the story about how his first presidential decision was to pick a rug for the Oval Office, a task he quickly cast to his wife. He told her to make sure the rug reflected optimism "because you can't make decisions unless you're optimistic that the decisions you make will lead to a better tomorrow."

Later, when he talked about his hope for succeeding in Iraq, Bush said, "Remember the rug?"

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Has he always been this incoherent or is he getting worse?

Well, compared to ten or 15 years ago, he's worse, but I don't know if he's gotten noticeably worse in the last few years....

Remember the rug?