If you give your kid a middle name that starts with a vowel, the kid's initials may make a word. I had a bad boss, a woman, whose initils spelled MAN. She was a MAN, and she was not smart enough just to sign MN.

Please think about this. I have a nephew who is TAN, tan as George Hamilton for life, and it is not his fault. My brother and his bride gave him those initials.

Thirty years ago, The Geniuses Who Brought You Modern America (tm) put a nuclear reactor on the shore of Lake Michigan. It still is there, and all of its toxic waste still is there, waiting for some storm of the century.

After that storm, all the great lakes, except MAYBE Lake Superior will be poison forever.

Do not let the sons and daughters of The Geniuses revive nuclear power. Coal is dirty, oil is expensive, but nuclear is poison.

Clean, Poison Nuclear Power! America's Crowning Glory!

Right now, are they torturing the five bombers they arrested in Glasgow? Are these people their great examples for justifying torture?

Who is torturing? The Brits? The CIA? Other? Will they get any useful information?

W. Bush probably will spend the rest of his life in reclusive disgrace. He will not be able to travel outside the USA much, lest a civilized country arrest him.

And our children, when they see him on the Hitler Channel, on cable TV, will ask how we possibly could have been taken in by such an obvious clown, such a prissy nobody. And when he dies, his lawyers will auction off his cowboy boots and his copies of Shakespeare and his pretzel bowl. R.I.P.

Apparently, this company already has an office in Silicon Valley. For other Indian companies, though, I suggest you look at other parts of the USA, where housing costs are fractions of Silcon Valley, and where wages are lower.

If Bush annoys Scooter a little more, Scooter just may drop a few detailed hints about what Cheney has been up to. A few clues from Scooter may help us find where the bodies are buried, what river Cheney threw the smoking guns into.

Americans would love to see pro football in person. If these new leagues provide football with reasonable ticket prices (compared with the NFL), they may succeed.

Lower ticket price is a major component of Minor League Baseball's success over the past fifteen years.

I will be delighted if we get a new President who does not say, "I feel like that..." If you do not understand this comment, you do not speak well enough to get my vote.

W. Bush also says, "Ahmo," when he means, "I am going to." It is not just, "Noocleeur." He is a great embarrassment. Smart people from other countries cannot understand him. Smart people from other parts of our own country cannot understand him.

W. Bush is the Full Monty: Brutal, Stupid, Incompetent, and Boorish to boot.

Just when I try to be snobby about how he talks, I mess up my own joke.

In manufacturing, starting in the 1970s, we developed great sophisticated, lightning-fast, immediate-flexible-response Just-In-Time supply systems. And then we sabatoged that whole priciple by offshoring our parts suppliers.

Instead of getting just exactly the correct (smallish) number of dash assemblies from Lansing or Romulus on the same day, we started ordering from China and elsewhere. And now three months delivery is considered lightning fast. Plus, usually, once the parts get onto the Chinese truck and the Panamanian freighter, they are invisible.

These data guys are finding out this same thing, in their own business. And these data guys are the guys who are supposed to be milking every last microsecond out of our supply chains.

Please give Irsigman a star. He called it.

And, in an earlier thread, Poster Irsigman called this. He wrote that W. Bush would commute, rather than pardon.

And, yes, the quarter-million-dollar fine will be more than covered by Scooter's multi-million-dollar donated-by-whackos defense fund. Scooter will make a profit on this.

Scooter, my pal, are you ashamed? You NEVER will recover your self-respect. No slammer, but not peace. Do you remember that that old twit Casper Weinberger eventually tried to do himself in? You should confess instead. Or, you may be the new Cap. And you may succeed. Good luck.

Can he? Inquiring minds want to know.

Right now, are the Brits or the CIA torturing the five or eight or however-many bombers? Are they getting any useful information?

Pant,Pant,Pant...

Scooter, you are a wimpy Cocker Spaniel at best. And Millie Bush still ranks ahead of you in the Bush Cocker Spaniel hierarchy.

Here... Let us give you a nice scratch on your doggy butt.

Soon, please stand up on your hind legs, and tell us the real story. E. Lewis is a dopey, pompous name, but it is too good for a guy who can't quite recall anything much. Scooter is a stupid name, even for a dog.

Speak honestly, and we will start to call you Lou, or E., or whatever you prefer.

To blame Islam for the islamist bombers would be like blaming Jesus for the Salem witch trials. Goldenboy (previous poster) is smart, but he has a weakness for simplistic points.

Please, let us see how this story plays out. More interesting than canned talking-point preconceptions, for sure. Please make up your own mind.