The Big Dog -- Bill Clinton -- Speaks Out on Bush

"WASHINGTON (AFP) - Former US president
Bill Clinton sharply criticised George W. Bush for the
Iraq War and the handling of Hurricane Katrina, and voiced alarm at the swelling US budget deficit.

Breaking with tradition under which US presidents mute criticisms of their successors, Clinton said the Bush administration had decided to invade Iraq 'virtually alone and before UN inspections were completed, with no real urgency, no evidence that there were weapons of mass destruction.'"

Comment: We need some Democrats to stand up and tell the truth. Complicit with the ill-advised Afghanistan and Iraq adventures, some Democrats are finally loosening their tongues. The Katrina debacle is the reason.

I ony hope someone on the aspirant Presidential scene appears who will stand up and tell the truth, not play polling games.

Reading is Overrated: Part Two

Many people thought I was crazy to voice the sentiments expressed in my article, Writing is Overrated. I feel a little vindicated to find that there is at least one other person -- this one with a pedigree!-- who shares the same views.

elearningpost blog...

"The Power of Conversation

Paul Hartzog following up on a statement made by Dr. Tom Malloy of the University of Utah — “I don’t read anymore; I just talk to people who have.”

“When two people have a conversation, they act as proxies for the many ideas in their heads which are drawn from the many things they have read. In effect, a conversation is a many-to-many interaction that is both mediated and moderated by the participants. The individuals catalog, sort, tag, and filter ideas as they are drawn into the shared space of the conversation.”">elearningpost

Good News from From William Gibson's Blob

On the writer's blog 7/31/05

"I am. I am writing. Just as some of you have guessed.

Never the most linear of processes, for yours truly, but something is starting to rise, in the spectral ringing hangar of the Novel Department. Looks like the Spruce Goose but with more wings. Why is there a tail at either end? My friends, we can only wait and see. No smoking here, hardhat at all times, steel-toed brogues, lumpy demob suit, loose lips sinking ships..."

When people ask Tom Waits where he's been 'til recently, he tells 'em "stuck in traffic". And, boy, do I ever know what he means. But then again it's all part of the pro-cess.

Pass me that caulking-gun, Eugene, I just spotted a nasty recess in the flank of our synopsis here..." -- William Gibson<

"The World Loves George Bush" Dept.

BERLIN, Germany (Reuters) -- A conservative German minister in a southern state has caused uproar by saying U.S. President George W. Bush should be "shot down" for his handling of the crisis in hurricane-struck New Orleans.

Andreas Renner, Social Minister in Germany's southern state of Baden-Wuertemberg, clarified later that he had only meant Bush should be downed politically.