LJ is back for me.

Maybe it's that the headline sounds promising

I feel kinda bad for the robot. It didn't mean to fall over and crush the guy!

I feel kinda bad for the robot. It didn't mean to fall over and crush the guy!

Yeah. The headline conjures up an image of people fleeing in terror, as the mighty robotic lawnmower bears down on them, blades whirling....

(At least that's the image I get in my head.)

At least that's the image I get in my head.

Not just you.

I, for one, welcome our homocidal robotic landscaping overlords.

I, for one, welcome our homocidal robotic landscaping overlords.

I don't think the guy trimming his lawn with scissors does.

(At least that's the image I get in my head.)

My cat was sure of the very same thing about the Roomba until the day she died.

I feel kinda bad for the robot. It didn't mean to fall over and crush the guy!

Maybe so, but it's making me look a little closer at that guy who "accidentally" "drove off the cliff" in his "golf cart."

Maybe the robots are just subtler than we were expecting.

Georgie Anne Geyer writes today in the Dallas Morning News about President Bush’s strange behavior during a recent meeting with “[f]riends of his from Texas.”

But by all reports, President Bush is more convinced than ever of his righteousness.

Friends of his from Texas were shocked recently to find him nearly wild-eyed, thumping himself on the chest three times while he repeated “I am the president!” He also made it clear he was setting Iraq up so his successor could not get out of “our country’s destiny.”

This is the second time in recent weeks that accounts have surfaced of Bush lashing out or “ranting” in private meetings when responding to criticism of his Iraq policy. Chris Nelson of the Nelson Report offered a similar account earlier this month:

[S]ome big money players up from Texas recently paid a visit to their friend in the White House. The story goes that they got out exactly one question, and the rest of the meeting consisted of The President in an extended whine, a rant, actually, about no one understands him, the critics are all messed up, if only people would see what he’s doing things would be OK…etc., etc. This is called a “bunker mentality” and it’s not attractive when a friend does it. When the friend is the President of the United States, it can be downright dangerous. Apparently the Texas friends were suitably appalled, hence the story now in circulation.

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I just read that on DMN's blog!

Well, he's never taken well to being thwarted, and he's getting a lot of that these days. And while listening to him get petulant is annoying, I much prefer it to the smugness.