GeneTouchet wrote:

"As presented, the "haiku" doesn't quite make sense. If Libby wrote it, what is his purpose to talk about himself in the 3rd person?"

I'd guess the haiku was what Libby wanted McClellan to say from the podium.

If by some miracle Jesus did return (and I'm not holding my breath even as Easter approaches), these Bush-loving Armageddonist crazies would be in for one hell of a rude awakening. I'm reminded of the Onion headline: "9/11 Hijackers Shocked to Find Themselves in Hell"

Can we dub this one Masturgate, or is that too obvious?

Hoping to be the first to wonder if Mark Foley ever sponsored legislation called Left No Child's Behind...

God help me, I love this stuff.

It was for a pilonidal cyst. Snopes has the full story:

www.snopes.com/military/limbaugh.htm

I think Tim and WR are being too kind in not providing a link. "Medical deferment" makes it sound like something physically debilitating, rather than a possible source of discomfort that could have been fixed if Rash Windbagh had really wanted to serve.

What were they snor... uh, thinking?

Perhaps someone confused the Oscar winner with Ice Cube. Did this appear on national TV? Everyone needs an editor.

All this talk of troop surges reminds me of that menopausal bumper sticker: "I don't have hot flashes--I have power surges." Bush's surge will spill more blood, but never his own. As they say, "War is menstruation envy."

Bush said, "Sending more Americans would undermine our strategy of encouraging Iraqis to take the lead in this fight." Does this mean he was against the surge before he was for it?

Regarding Tony Snow's comment, "I am not accusing members of the Senate of inviting carnage on the United States of America." Thanks for pointing out what you’re NOT doing, Tony, and thereby (with what passes for subtlety in this crowd) planting the meme in the public mind that the Senate is inviting carnage on the U.S.

This comment reminds me of former Sen. (and one-time presidential aspirant) Bill Frist not accusing Richard Clarke of perjury.

I'm NOT saying the Bushies are all certifiable loons, as-yet-unindicted conspirators, and war criminals. I'm just saying, is all.

Still makes me laugh, but I was hoping for something new.

And he hit it right on the head, hard. Savor this prescient brilliance:

http://archive.salon.com/comics/boll/2003/11/20/boll/index1.html

"This specific ship's

MISSION

has been

ACCOMPLISHED

The rendering doesn't work too well, so see the original.

If Moore has original Word docs and wants to see who first created them, here's how, at least in Word 2003 for Windows:

On the File menu, click Properties. (You can also find Properties by right-clicking the document in a file management program like Windows Explorer.)

Click the Summary tab.

The Author box should contain the name of the document's creator. Unless they were smart enough to remove it, which it doesn't sound like they were.

This doesn't address the related issue of whether these versions use previous docs as templates, but it still might turn up an interesting name or two.

"Take the profit out of war and you will end war."

No doubt I'm swimming against the tide here, but I've long thought the so-called edgy political satire, wit, or insight (or create your own dust-jacket cliche) of Berkeley Breathed's comic strips was enormously overrated. It distresses me to see Salon adding Opus to the masthead.

I'm one of the few who could hardly stand Bloom County while in college in the '80s, and I've watched in horror as he's whorishly resurrected a succession of those characters into Opus. I don't know the guy (though I attended Colorado College with his wife--did she ever date David Peskin?), but I just don't like his stuff.

If you wanted to add a strip in keeping with Salon's outlook, go with Ted Rall or the mad genius behind Get Your War On.

http://www.mnftiu.cc/mnftiu.cc/war64.html

Well, maybe his language is too raw... but I bet he could use the money more than Breathed could.

Sorry if this sounds bitter, but this is one of the few editorial missteps I've watched you guys make in the seven years I've been a member.

Because his lips move.

You quote Gen. Pace as saying "I would not want it to be our policy that if we were to find out that so-and-so was sleeping with somebody else's wife, that we would just look the other way, which we do not. We prosecute that kind of immoral behavior."

Immoral as it may be, Gen. Pace, unless adultery violates the UCMJ, it hasn't been a prosecutable offense since about the time we quit handing out scarlet A's.

My history may be off, but my point stands. With his shaky grasp of the law, let's hope Gen. Pace isn't nominated for Attorney General.

What bothers me so much about your touting the existence of these scanned images is that no one involved seems to have considered whether using the available technology in this fashion was a wise decision. I'm reminded of the scientists at Los Alamos, who may not have considered the ramifications of what they were working on till they saw the flash of light. And by then, the world had already changed.

Obviously I'm overreaching to equate scanning and posting a highly anticipated book with developing atomic weapons, but in both cases, it's the apparent absence of thoughtfulness that is troubling. Technology employed without thoughtfulness can have vast and unforeseen consequences.