View From the Bushes

Today is my 365th entry. Which means, quite literally, that I've been doing this for a year. You would think that I would have improved over that time, but looking back I think some of my earliest entries were also some of the best. Like this excerpt only 12 days in:

Not only was it three hours long, but it involved marketing, sales and consultants. If you've dealt with any of these groups you know that this is a combination at least as dangerous as saltpeter, charcoal and sulphur (it is left as an exercise to the reader which group is the saltpeter). A normal meeting is like being kicked in the giblets. A three hour meeting with consultants, marketing and sales is like listening to Hélène Cixous, Luce Irigaray and Julia Kristeva argue about post-modern feminism in French. (Again, it's left as an exercise for the reader to determine which group is Cixous).

But alas, that was probably the high point and it's just been downhill from there. I figure as long as I'm headed that way I might as well go ahead and interject some political rhetoric into the blog in an attempt to alienate the rest of my readership. As I'm sure most of you know, Dan Rather did a report recently on some memos which proported to show that Bush was a complete slacker during his time in the National Guard. Well the show had barely aired before bloggers began punching huge holes in the authenticity of the memos Rather was using as the main evidence. It's this more than anything else that amuses me about the story, the fact that it was the bloggers who started the ball rolling. I think that's pretty cool. Neal Boortz has a pretty good breakdown of some of the problems with the memos. I particularly like his take on the "typewriter" CBS came up with as something which could have produced that memo.

Of course in a certain sense it's almost too obvious that the memos are forged. I mean what kind of idiot, when attempting to forge a type-written memo from the early 70's, would use a proportionally spaced font rather than a mono-spaced font like courier?

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Ross