Unbelievable. A new site (isbushwired.com) wonders if Bush uses an audio prompter in his ear as a matter of course. If Bush is dyslexic—as some have speculated—then this is really no different from using a teleprompter (apart from the fact that everyone can see if you’re using a teleprompter). And it would explain Bush’s halting speech patterns and “shifty eyes.”
What would be particularly damning, however, is if Bush uses it not only for speeches but for routine interviews and press conferences. (And isbushwired.com thinks this is the case.) Worst case scenario is that Bush used it to cheat his way through the first Kerry debate. Isbushwired.com has posted photos from the debate showing what—if it isn’t an audio device—is the most obnoxiously obvious bra clasp in fashion history.
UPDATE: Salon reports on the widely circulating rumors.
From Gen. J.C. Christian, Patriot: Q. How many members of the Bush administration does it take to change a light bulb?
A. None. There’s nothing wrong with that light bulb. It has served us honorably. When you say it’s burned out, you’re giving encouragement to the forces of darkness. Once we install a light bulb, we never, ever change it. Real men don’t need artificial light.
Looks like the elusive swing voters picked Edwards as the winner of last night’s debate. (Roughly 40% for Edwards, 30% Cheney, 30% a draw.) A win by decision was all Edwards needed to do, so a slightly-better-than-Bush performance by Kerry in the next two debates might be all the Dems need to seal this one up. If the first debate is any indication, Kerry should pull that off easily. Here’s hoping.
How do you run a campaign on a record of failure? Watch and learn.
Trickster Christ? The Happy Tutor over at Wealth Bondage lays out the stakes when it comes to this Divine Riddler.
I suppose we all see in Christ our own image: Born in a Dumpster; died on a Gurney. That is how I see him; the Fool I follow. For others, he is the child of privilege (God’s only son), who came to save others like him, and damn the rest to hell. To me he is the prodigy who confounded the priests in the temple and spoke in riddles. To others, he laid down the law and left them in charge. Yes, he left a Book, but those of us who are Teachers can only smile. How are we, who are so illiterate, to know what it says? We who cannot read even a poem or a paragraph? The Book too he left us to learn our own limits. Those who speak in his name have yet to get their Final Grade. From what I see on TV, the annointed had better take PE and Intro to Anthro and hope squeek by with an average above D. Maybe in Limbo is where they will learn to read the Text they quote so freely.
If the Book didn’t so clearly show us both characters—and insist they are one and the same—I would still count myself among this Fool’s followers. But until he can separate his wheat from his chaff, he won’t be for me any more than the first among equals.
It took about six months, but the comment spammers finally found their way into my WordPress set up. But no worries. The Three Strikes plugin “scores” each new comment for spam badness and deletes them automatically if they are too suspicious. (It then sends me an email bragging about its spam-killing goodness—and sends the spammer to the FBI website.) And Kitten’s Spam Words plugin looks for favorite spam words (like “lolita” or “viagra”) and poops them accordingly. If you run into problems commenting let me know, but I don’t anticipate problems.
Both these handy dandy doo-dads were found courtesy of Wordlog, a news blog for WordPress. If you’re a WordPress user, or thinking about using WordPress, you should check it out. Lots of good word being done.
