Although the pundits have been taking little notice, Dubya’s already on the 2004 campaign trail.
Category: Politics (2002-2004)
Oh, shut up already.
Normally, I just stay out of the computer wars, since (a) Mac people tend to be so vehemently evangelical and since (b) – even though I’ve been using ’em since my dad bought a TRS-80 back in the day (on which I used to play the hell out of a game called “Sword of Zedek,” which for some reason I can’t find anything on the web about )- I’ve never been much more than a moderately informed user (which, in blog circles, makes me ridiculously uninformed.) That being said, every time I catch one of these annoying new Apple ads, I become ever deeper entrenched in my fondness for PC’s. “Using my PC was like being stuck in a bad relationship?” Please. Like I want to wait an extra eighteen months for new games to get a Mac port.
While I did have an Apple IIc as a kid (Mmmm…”Old Ironsides,”) I didn’t really use Macs until I was forced to in high school and, to cut to the quick, I thought they were crappity crap. When a PC goes down, even a rudimentary user like myself can try to ascertain the problem in DOS. When a Mac went down…well, you were stuck looking at that stupid icon. It’s a glorified calculator. It’s no doubt true that the Windows OS is and has been a complete facsimile of the Macintosh, but I’m kinda hoping we move past GUI’s eventually. Ok, I’ve probably betrayed my ignorance a few times over in this post already, so I’ll close it up. Suffice to say, those Apple ads irk me to no end.
Grand Moff Harken.
Just as the Bush White House tries to sidestep the corporate scandals, Dubya changes his story about a Martha Stewart-esque stock dump he made as director of Harken Energy Corporation in 1990, two months before the shares went sour.
Memorial Politics.
Speaking to the families of 9-11 victims, Governor Pataki declares that nothing will be built on the site of the former WTC. While obviously some kind of memorial on the premises would be appropriate, I don’t agree with Pataki at all on this one. NYC doesn’t need another park…the city should stay true to its organic nature and rebuild on the (extremely valuable) space, particularly if you consider the fact that the WTC project tore up several blocks of historic Dutch Manhattan back in 1973.
Well, that explains it.
The Post finally tracks down the source of the (recently) oft-repeated Bush quote about only balancing the budget in times of war, recession, and national emergency…and it was said by Gore.
Release the Hounds.
The SEC vows to delve into Halliburton mismanagement, despite what Dick Cheney has to say in the matter.
Executing the Death Penalty.
A US District Court Judge declares the (federal) death penalty unconstitutional. Let’s hope the decision fares better than the Pledge one did.
Shame of the World.
The Dubya Administration renounces US leadership on the rule of law and tries to kill the fledgling International Criminal Court, even going so far as to stop UN peacekeeping in Bosnia. Absolutely shameful…this is even more embarrassing than our billion dollars in back dues that the Helms GOP refused to pay for so long.
For which it stands.
David Greenberg offers a brief history of the Pledge.
I’m gettin’ goofy…I might even just cuss a bit!
Al Gore vows more spontaneity in his next campaign. What, you mean the good ole boy Tennessean thing was an act? And haven’t we heard this before?
