Next in a long line of barfing president Bushes


What’s the upside if Bush has gone back to drinking?
Yet another President Bush gets to barf in some prime minister’s lap

757
  41.9%
 
Chris Hitchens gets someone to talk to at night

425
  23.5%
 
$200 million no-bid breathalyzer contract for Halliburton

364
  20.2%
 
Slurred speech could cause a full-scale invasion of Shmeeria

260
  14.4%
 

Ah, but what will you be watching on your Video iPod?  Personally, I can’t imagine watching anything on a 2.5" screen.  (I think the real deal for Apple here is getting licensing agreements to repurpose existing ABC and Disney shows, which people can watch on regular TVs when the iPod is in its cradle.  If this model catches on someday, TiVo, look out.)

Until then, what’s worth watching on the teeny screen?  New poll at upper left.

Is the Zawahiri letter a forgery?

Sure seems like it.  According to Prof. Cole, it was probably written by a Shiite.

The analogy I’d draw (and it’s a pretty fair one, I think) is a
fundamentalist Southern Baptist opening a letter with a Hail Mary. 
Simply ain’t gonna happen.  I mean, it’s like a freakin’ religion with these people.

So not only would this have come from a Shiite… but one who didn’t even know enough about Salafism to know he was writing something pretty unlikely.

Now, who do we know who could be that incompetent?  Who do we know who stages fake events to manipulate public opinion…?

Save the angry letters.  That was just snark.  I know there’s no proof of where the letter came from, and no clarification
of how it was intercepted.  And all the intelligence agencies — the same people we were told (falsely)
were certain there were WMDs — supposedly agree.  So, fine.  We’re just supposed to take it on faith. 

Except for the fact that it doesn’t make any damn sense.

PS — just heard from Prof. Cole, who believes that since the letter calls Husain an "Imam," something a Sunni would not do, the analogy may be fairly exact.  Even so, much of the rest of the letter is worthy of controversy.  I recommend frequent visits to his site, btw.  He promises more on the issue shortly.