Just to review: the current president of the U.S. believes that he was chosen by God and that he doesn’t owe anyone an explanation of anything, seems to have a bit of trouble understanding the impact of his behavior on others, has a history of failing upward and is perhaps a bit needy in the attention department (see Exhibit A at left).

So I was meandering about this evening and stopped in on Calpundit, where I read the news about the Department of Justice posting a two-year-old KPMG study on workplace diversity in the department. This is, mind you, a study commissioned by the department, paid for by you and made available only after repeated Freedom of […]

Forbes Magazine has a feature article on the economics of marijuana cultivation, including a handy little sidebar offering a list of essentials for establishing your own little boutique farm. Does this count as mainstreaming the weed?
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The Senate Intelligence Committee is frustrated with the slow pace of Bush administration responses (there’s a shock, eh?) to its queries relating to prewar intelligence on Iraq, so it sent letters to Condi Rice, Don Rumsfeld, Colin Powell and CIA Director George Tenet establishing a Friday deadline for producing documents and scheduling interviews with key […]

The Pentagon—under pressure from Yoric—wants to take a bunch of recent Iraqi high-school grads, give ‘em guns and a couple of weeks of training and send them out to make Iraq safe for democracy. At the same time, the administration are debating among themselves whether or not to divert some of the personnel now involved […]

A little headline humor from our friends at the British news roundup site, UK Newsglance. The headline links to a short article in the Financial Times which offers its own taste of British wit, very dry, shaken, not stirred.
Mr Bush who sometimes appeared harried as he responded to critical questioning, said: “I can’t put it […]

A rumor to the effect that the Bush administration intends to pull out of Iraq, or at least substantially lessen the US presence there in time to claim victory going into campaign season, is making the rounds.
The approximate deadline for this is March, presumably because that’s the point at which the military ligaments will officially […]

The greatest danger facing American civilians at the moment may be the risk of being struck by a barrage of dropping shoes.
WASHINGTON — The newly retired head of the State Department’s intelligence arm said Tuesday that the U.S. intelligence community “badly underperformed” for years in assessing Iraq’s weapons of mass destruction and should accept responsibility […]

WASHINGTON (Reuters) - President Bush told ambassadors from Muslim states that his administration does not tolerate anti-Muslim bigotry, but he stopped short of condemning a senior Pentagon official who said Muslims do not worship “a real God.”
Bush added that Muslims deserve the same respect afforded mackerel snappers and those bald freaks at the airport who […]

Curtis LeMay is best known for incinerating a half-million or more Japanese civilians in the Great Tokyo Air Raid, for his inspiration of the General Jack Ripper character in Dr. Strangelove and his 1964 recipe for success in the Vietnam War: “Tell the Vietnamese they’ve got to draw in their horns or we’re going to […]