One of the complicit "journalists" regarding the run up to the Iraq war who is seldom mentioned is Bob Schieffer. He was television's counterpart to Judith Miller. And yet he sits atop his podium every Sunday at CBS as its Washington chief correspondent expounding with impunity. He has yet to be held accountable for his complicity in promoting Bush's war.

And while I'm on the subject, I wonder why the various "schools of journalism" in the nation aren't held accountable as well for the sorry state of journalism. During the run up to the war I helped sponsor 2 visits to our area by Scott Ritter who was a chief weapons inspector in Iraq during UNSCOM after Desert Storm. He had first hand knowledge of the destruction of Saddam's WMD and therefore knew that Bush/Cheney/Powell were lying us into an unjustified war.

During his time with us he visited journalism classes at local universities to speak with a follow up Q&A. Not one journalism student asked him a question after he finished addressing the classes. It was embarrassing if not enlightening.

It would have been helpful if you had listed the time and date of the first episode.

It would have been helpful if you had listed the time and date of the first episode. I read over your review several times and couldn't find the info.

There's this in the subtitle of the article:

"Is there any subject in IT today with more promise — or more confusion — than cloud computing?"

And then this summary sentence:

"However, this is only because multi-tenancy and aggregation of uncorrelated demand go one step beyond virtualization, reducing total resource requirements through statistical multiplexing."

The author's poor writing skills are self fulfilling prophecy. Who in the world is he directing this "cloudy", confusing jargon to? Not the average reader. BTW there is no such word as "virtualization". He just made it up out of thin air...or a cloud.

Why should anyone be surprised at Rush's behavior in this regard. He's always been in dire need of a psycho-proctologist. This is no more than projection on his part.

How one leans politically is a reflection of their values. So for me it is more about values than politics. The politics are incidental. I can tolerate these differences with acquaintances and far flung relatives but not a lover/mate. Therefore, it would be impossible for me to be around someone daily who espouses or holds the values that would lead them to be a Repub. I would not be able to respect either their ethics or their intellect.

Todd's lame excuse to Scahill for not doing his job boils down to the lament that if he reported the truth, as Scahill does, the consequences would be unacceptable. I saw the broadcast and I couldn't believe what I was hearing. Todd was oblivious. The truth always brings with it consequences but is that reason for avoiding it as Todd seems to think.

Todd's response to Scahill's criticism was condescension, sarcasm, and ad hominem. Scahill's response was simple and unassailable, "I report the truth." And Scahill reports the truth even if it puts his own life in danger as noted by Leno.

I lost all respect for Todd.

I'm an ordinary citizen without any political power or connections. And yet when Bush/Cheney/Rumsfeld/Powell began to make their bogus claims that eventually led to the invasion of Iraq, I emailed everyone I could identify who had worked for UNSCOM under Rolph Eckeus after Desert Storm. It was UNSCOM's mission to rid Iraq of WMD.

One of the chief weapons inspectors under UNSCOM contacted me, came to our area and testified to large audiences that he had personally overseen the destruction of 98% of Iraq's WMD. He couldn't attest to the other 2% because they had no serial numbers, even though they too had been destroyed. He point blank told us that Bush was lying.

I was then able to corroborate the weapons' inspectors claims through other independent sources. For instance, I discovered that Saddam was only able to produce anthrax in liquid form with a very short shelf life, which put to the lie Powell's dramatic U.N. speech in which he held up a vial of powdered anthrax to prove his point that Saddam had WMD.

If I could do this as an ordinary citizen, why couldn't MSM investigative reporters as well as our representatives in Congress do the same? More to the point, why couldn't every other citizen like me do the same? As much as any other issue, the Iraq invasion has discredited the MSM, leaving the internet as the only alternative available for finding the truth. And the truth is there even if one has to sort through some nonsense to find it.

Bush failed us as president in lying this nation into an unnecessary war. But more importantly, we failed as a nation in allowing him to do it. The fault, dear Brutus, lies with us.

Wilson was already raking in the dough from the Health Care corporations. So that's old news. What's new is that because of his stupidity, his opponent is now on an equal footing but without having to sell his soul as Wilson has done.

The title implies, even if facetiously, that the reason for Repub idiocy might be because they were smoking pot. I would contend that if this were literally true, their actions would have been more rational rather than less so.

Maybe what they really need is a toke or two.