Ode To Dick

A few random thoughts while trying to figure out how it is that Al Qaeda can even have websites? What are the most popular domain names? Are there 'comment' sections where bloggers are derided as 'typical out of touch Tora Bora Wahabis'?

* Compared to George W., Richard Nixon had an all consuming passion for the truth. The Watergate transcripts are basically a desperate attempt by Nixon to keep his lies straight. He was genuinely concerned about what lies he had told to whom; painstakingly repositioning aides and agencies inside his web of plausible deniability lest his actions be found out.
Today's misdeeds make the Huston Plan look like an exercise in progressive government. Having to defend something like the Downing Street Memo would've dissolved RN in a puddle of vindictive jowl sweat. Yet the media never dares trouble our unconcerned Caesar for an explanation.

* Really enjoying Harry Shearer's homage to Larry King. One of our King highlights occurred during the Lewinsky 'scandal'. Larry had assembled a panel for a roundtable discussion on the stained dress. It included Evan Thomas, Steven Brill, Jonathan Turley and a forensic expert. He asked the forensic expert the following questions..."You mean it can be semen and not be sperm?"..."Does it matter how long ago the sperm got there?" ...and our personal favorite, enhanced by Larry's gravelly, inquisitive delivery..."Suppose there's sperm on a car seat and someone sits on the car seat?"

* There's so much laughter at Rummy's Pentagon press briefings reporters should be charged a two-drink minimum.

* Item # 479 in a limitless list of reasons to loathe George W. Bush - He is the only 40 year old in history who quit drinking not because he found blood in his urine, but because he had a talk with Billy Graham. No thinking adult should reach their fifth decade on the planet with a personal philosophy so tenuous that it can be altered by Billy Graham.