“It is useless to attempt to reason a man out of a thing he was never reasoned into”

Jonathan Swift
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"The Democrats have moved to the right, and the right has moved into a mental hospital." - Bill Maher
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"The city is crowded my friends are away and I'm on my own
It's too hot to handle so I gotta get up and go

It's a cruel ... cruel summer"

Wednesday, May 14, 2008

tell me headlies, tell me sweet little headlies

Glancing at the Yahoo and AP headlines--

Bush disappointed in "flawed intelligence" before Iraq war
Global warming "real" Bush says
Bush enjoys Will Ferrell impression of him
--one might paraphrase blogarillo's recent reaction when one of our trolls came out from under his bridge and suddenly began acting reasonably: "Who is this person, and what has he done with President Bush?"

Read the transcript, of course, and you see the same petulant, defensive man we've known all along.

The headlie writers apparently stopped just before the words butbutbut--.

spacedark