The show we broadcast last night, in which we read our ceremony on the air, is now up on the web site. There is also a link to my solo appearance on Sunday night. They’ll both be on line for a week or so.
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More Deja Vu
Anyone who doesn’t appreciate how the Berger bunch has used the fortuitous timing to their advantage must have slept through the Clinton years. The defense is classic. First, the mean Republicans, then the meaningless personal testimonials–“if you knew Sandy Berger like I know Sandy Berger (or Betty Currie). . .,” then the irrelevant–he is an extremely hardworking guy who was only trying to help the Commission (we’re working, working, working here at the White House), and finally (the political use of FBI files, the lost billing records) the removal of the classified documents was “inadvertent.”
Prescient
Looks like I called this one correctly. Bush continues to say that he’ll sign an “assault weapon” ban, while not actually lifting a finger to make it happen. It’s a safe straddle.
Screw The Future
Jeff Foust rounds up more stories on the House cuts to the NASA budget request. A quote from Congressman Weldon:
This bill takes care of most of our needs at Kennedy Space Center, so I’m hard pressed not to support my chairman when he’s taking care of Florida.
Yup.
I’ve got mine. What did posterity ever do for me?
I also always wonder if they understand the impact of “delaying” a program for a year. A contractor has a team put together, and they can’t just put them in cold storage until Congress decides to finally fund the program. They get reassigned to other projects, and it’s hard to reassemble them later, resulting in putting together a new team, with associated learning curve. This is one of the reasons that government space programs are so inefficient and costly.
More Moore
I know, I know, it shouldn’t be necessary, yet in defiance of all that is logical and decent, there are still people who think that Michael Moore’s latest crockumentary has non-zero validity or value.
Andrew Bolt, Down Under, disagrees.
On The Air Shortly
Loony And Jerry
Just in case you needed another reason to avoid Ben & Jerry’s ice cream, Ben has taken to towing around an effigy of George Bush with flames coming out of his pants.
Well, at least classified documents aren’t falling out of them.
You know, Jeff Goldstein has to be having a field day with this whole thing.
[a minute of so later]
Yup. He is.
[Wednesday morning update]
Tim Blair is having fun with this, too.
She Doesn’t Like Singing For Muslims
That’s what Linda Ronstadt said.
Oh, what’s that? She said it about Christians?
My mistake. No wonder the politically correct harpies aren’t trumpeting it from the front pages.
You know, it’s really sad that so many artists that I enjoy have to indulge themselves in this mindless politics. I used to love her stuff, particularly the torch songs with Nelson Riddle, but she’ll never sound the same again.
She Doesn’t Like Singing For Muslims
That’s what Linda Ronstadt said.
Oh, what’s that? She said it about Christians?
My mistake. No wonder the politically correct harpies aren’t trumpeting it from the front pages.
You know, it’s really sad that so many artists that I enjoy have to indulge themselves in this mindless politics. I used to love her stuff, particularly the torch songs with Nelson Riddle, but she’ll never sound the same again.
She Doesn’t Like Singing For Muslims
That’s what Linda Ronstadt said.
Oh, what’s that? She said it about Christians?
My mistake. No wonder the politically correct harpies aren’t trumpeting it from the front pages.
You know, it’s really sad that so many artists that I enjoy have to indulge themselves in this mindless politics. I used to love her stuff, particularly the torch songs with Nelson Riddle, but she’ll never sound the same again.