I'm not sure they realize Bush used one but just had difficulty reading it.

You could have left off the "it".

Aims, I'm trying not to respond to someone who insists that, if the statement "Jews have too much power" is antisemitic, then the statement "Whites have too much power" must be racist. Responding does no good and won't convince anyone of anything.

Wow--the Art Institute of Chicago will have free admission the entire month of February!

Aimee, step away. People are stooopid and the internets magnifies the stoopid.

And I am totally a liberal bigot, mostly because everytime Newt/Rush et al open their mouths I think, "if you were (still) in charge it would be one more step to an idiocracy!"

Ah. I've had a day already. But I got to talk about Camus and the Pantheon and Sarkozy this morning.

I'm trying not to respond to someone who insists that, if the statement "Jews have too much power" is antisemitic, then the statement "Whites have too much power" must be racist.

"You have too much access to the internet"

I was arguing with a friend who is deeply disappointed in Obama, but I think I'm coming around to his point of view.

Have any Chicagoans ever watched or participated in the Chitidarod? It's a great idea--teams of five people pull a grocery cart along a route through the city and, at the finish line, have to have at least 40 pounds of food in the cart for food pantries. The rules page is very fun to read:

The Chiditarod is Chicago's very own most important shopping cart race in the universe. The Iditarod is the famous long-distance race in which yelping dogs tow a sled across Alaska. Chiditarod is pretty much the same thing, except that instead of dogs, it's people; instead of sleds, it's shopping carts; and instead of Alaska, it's Chicago. Chiditarod is a one-of-a-kind event dedicated to self-expression, reclaiming our city for freaks of all varieties, food-raising for our city's disadvantaged, and creating copious amounts of epic.

My favorite is the people who keep harping on Obama's use of the teleprompter as the secret to his eloquence.

You mean he plans out what to say in advance????

t innocence crumbles

"You have too much access to the internet"

FTW!

You mean he plans out what to say in advance????

I have to admit it was weird to see that he had one when he spoke to that sixth-grade class the other day. Do they all do that?

Pretty much everyone I've ever worked for wouldn't speak before any size group without a script, and I can see preferring the teleprompter to notecards, if you can get one! Which he can.

I have to admit it was weird to see that he had one when he spoke to that sixth-grade class the other day.

That was awkward - I think he'd have been better off making the speech in the auditorium to the whole school and maybe having a photo-op Q&A in the classroom afterwards.