What he said

This entry was published at least two years ago (originally posted on December 4, 2002). Since that time the information may have become outdated or my beliefs may have changed (in general, assume a more open and liberal current viewpoint). A fuller disclaimer is available.

Well, actually, it’s more or less what I said, only better written, and without using pull quotes from other sites for 90% of the content.

OK, the joke’s over. Will someone tell that chowderhead in the White House to stop playing his Fantasy President computer game and get serious? He exhumes John Poindexter, a retired Navy admiral who was such a bumbler and scoundrel that he got fired by the Reagan administration after being convicted of lying to Congress, defrauding the government, and destroying evidence in the Iran Contra scandal and he puts Poindexter in charge of the Information Awareness Office, which has a legal right to tap electronic information about you, including your prescription records, bank statements, buying patterns, telephone, travel, etc.

While we’re reeling from that, Bush digs up the most gruesome, festering corpse in the catacombs of crooked government, and he puts HENRY KISSINGER in charge of an investigation into the 9/11/01 attacks. This is worse than putting the fox into the henhouse. At least the fox is up front about his intentions. Kissinger is so crooked he can watch himself walking out of the room. If the families of the people lost on 9/11 had any hopes for a fair and just account of what happened, they can forget it.

— Ray Holley, editor for the Healdsburg Tribune, as quoted by Dori Smith

This is why I’m a ‘blogger’, and he’s a newspaper editor.