So, What ELSE Does Bush Have in Mind?

From an article in the New Yorker ("Shifting Targets by Seymour M Hirsch:

The President’s position, and its corollary—that, if many of America’s problems in Iraq are the responsibility of Tehran, then the solution to them is to confront the Iranians—have taken firm hold in the Administration. This summer, the White House, pushed by the office of Vice-President Dick Cheney, requested that the Joint Chiefs of Staff redraw long-standing plans for a possible attack on Iran, according to former officials and government consultants. The focus of the plans had been a broad bombing attack, with targets including Iran’s known and suspected nuclear facilities and other military and infrastructure sites. Now the emphasis is on “surgical” strikes on Revolutionary Guard Corps facilities in Tehran and elsewhere, which, the Administration claims, have been the source of attacks on Americans in Iraq. What had been presented primarily as a counter-proliferation mission has been reconceived as counterterrorism.

Are Our President Thinking?

President Bush asks a rhetorical question, "Is our children learning?" His answer? "Childrens do learn."

Am I the only one who has noticed that the press is no longer printing the grammar- and spell-checked versions of Presidential remarks? It seems like we are now seeing the actual quotations, warts and all.

Critical Thinking and the Columbia Brouhaha

Dave Winer posts a though-provoking set of observations and questions regarding the speech by Iranian President Ahmadinejad at Columbia University:

Media you can't trust. I saw most of the speech given on Monday by Iranian President Ahmadinejad at Columbia University. I also watched a lot of the coverage that night and the following morning by MSNBC and CNN, and I gotta say, they behaved shamefully, as badly as Lee Bollinger, the president of Columbia University, who introduced Ahmadinejad. ... [Scripting News]

Follow this link to read his post and for links to other useful resources about this issue.

A Blog Resurrected

Did I spell that correctly?

I feel like I need a blog that is not connected to my profession and hobbies, where I can post whatever seems interesting to me at the time. This will be that blog.