Posted Tuesday, April 25, 2006 by Gene

Wait, doesn't he already work for the White House? Or do I have that backwards?
Fox anchor may replace McClellan as press secretary

Bush approval ratings at a new low
Just because I never ever get tired of saying "I told you so" to people who thoroughly deserve to hear it, here's my blog post from Wednesday, November 3, 2004:

Dear Bush supporters:

We, the defeated Kerry supporters, would like to congratulate you on your impressive display of ignorance and fear in the face of all available evidence. Truly, it took magnificent courage to look at your own monkey hand-puppet of a candidate and say with a straight face: "yes. This twisted, lying fraud is the man I want to represent me in the world stage for the next four years. This xenophobic barely literate incompetent bald-faced liar who thinks that facts are unimportant because God is speaking directly through him, this is my guy."

We almost envy you your naivete in believing that backwards about a hundred years is the direction the country should be going. And the way you accept whatever comes out of the mouth of this administration as the truth, without checking to see if it's the case? So cute. Really. You're adorable.

And when Bush promises to do things that he never ever does, and you get to pretend that he did do it just because he said he did? We would love to partake of a little of that cognitive dissonance sometime, just to see what it's like. We bet the world looks much happier from there.

We would like to be able to say you get what you asked for, and what you asked for is a higher tax burden, a longer Iraq occupation, a country in much greater danger from outside threats, an embarrassment to international diplomacy, a Medicare disaster, a federal deficit that may just bring the entire country to its knees, a richer upper class, poorer lower class and nonexistent middle class, and a collapsing public education system. But we can't say this because even when it happens, you won't know it. You are the shiny happy people, and it's obvious now that you only get your information from your President, and apparently there are no facts that will compel you to understand that he is lying to you. The country just drove off a cliff, and those of us with a grasp of reality know what's going to happen when we hit bottom, whereas you think you've just learned how to fly.

We hope you enjoy the view on the way down.

I find re-reading that cathartic, don't you?

When supermodels go wild
I'm not linking this article because it's an interesting story. I'm linking it so you can look at the before/after photos that come with the article. Oh my. Makeup really does make a big difference, doesn't it?

Wearing new glasses today
They rest higher on my nose, the prescription's slightly different, they have screws into the lenses (no frame) that are in my line of sight and may make me cross-eyed like all of the people who sued Steve Martin's character in The Jerk, and they're plastic lenses, which I've never had before. I'm going to walk into a wall before the day is out.