He is not a doctor, not a lawyer, and not a poet either. Now you know. Apparently Rock, Paper, Saddam is old hat by now, but I like old hats. Hee hee. Tiger claw! Raaaar! Rar. It appears that my readers have more to say about democracy and taxes than t…

(via The Talent Show) Negative Capability (Harpers.org): The following assertions were collected from public statements made by George W. Bush and his official spokesmen since 1997. Originally from Harper’s Magazine, May 2004. The President of the Uni…

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Bush: “Dammit, Jim (AKA Karl Rove), I’m a moron, not a president.”
Bush: “Scotty, we need warp drive for the economy reactor.”
Scotty (AKA Secretary of Treasury, John Snow): “I’m giving her all I can. We’re out of dilithium crystals. We’ll have to throw some more poor kids on the fire to keep the economy burning. At your current rate of cutting taxes and spending money, it’ll take ten years to turn it around.”
Bush: “You have eight months.”
Scotty: “We’ll have to coax the fire with the elderly, then.”

Speaking of what Bush can’t do: “Many Americans Can Read but Can’t Comprehend.” I’ve seen his lips moving when he reads a memo, but I think he has a hard time with comprehension. Higher level thinking and abstract thought? Not a chance.

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This is Negative Capability, a reading, originally from May 2004, published Thursday, July 15, 2004. It is part of Governance, which is part of Readings, which is part of Harpers.org.

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Bush: “Dammit, Jim (AKA Karl Rove), I’m a moron, not a president.”
Bush: “Scotty, we need warp drive for the economy reactor.”
Scotty (AKA Secretary of Treasury, John Snow): “I’m giving her all I can. We’re out of dilithium crystals. We’ll have to throw some more poor kids on the fire to keep the economy burning. At your current rate of cutting taxes and spending money, it’ll take ten years to turn it around.”
Bush: “You have eight months.”
Scotty: “We’ll have to coax the fire with the elderly, then.”

Speaking of what Bush can’t do: “Many Americans Can Read but Can’t Comprehend.” I’ve seen his lips moving when he reads a memo, but I think he has a hard time with comprehension. Higher level thinking and abstract thought? Not a chance.

VIA http://www.harpers.org/NegativeCapability.html

This is Negative Capability, a reading, originally from May 2004, published Thursday, July 15, 2004. It is part of Governance, which is part of Readings, which is part of Harpers.org.

Seth thinks maybe we should be wondering what the president is not.The President of the United States is not a…

It’s hard to pin down exactly what GWB is, but he and his spokesmen are pretty specific about what he…

- Fighting Terrorists
- Making us safer
- Getting my vote
- Smart enough to ever figure out why

* Very thought-provoking post at Six Apart about the “past and future of blogging”:http://www.sixapart.com/corner/archives/2004/07/blogs_bandwidth.shtml * MacNewsWorld has proof – sort of – that Mac users are “smarter than everyone else”:http://www.mac…

Just my two cents :)