Well, yes, if by “never,” you mean “more than 30”

Bush said on Sunday his policy had "never been stay the course."

Except, apparently, thirty times over the last three years.

Some people are pretty good with "the Google."

UPDATE: Just watch. Via TMW and a half-dozen other places.

If this was your entry page, this is not the BobHarris.com or Trebekistan.com main page.

While you’re here, click around.  Enjoy the goofy videos, see a pudu, and discover Prisoner of Trebekistan, my new humor book about playing Jeopardy! 13 times in the last ten years, losing over and over and over again.  (True story.)

It’s pretty good (check out the reviews on your left!) and you can even get some holiday shopping done.  Sixteen million Americans watch the show every night.  I bet more than one of them is on your gift list.

Two shameful omissions

Realized today while unpacking from NY (I’m slow) and straightening up my desk that there have been two egregious and unforgivable omissions from my links:

My buddy Phil Proctor, lifelong member of the seminal Firesign Theater, and

Funny Times magazine, published by old friends in Cleveland I never get to see enough.

Phil was kind enough to drop off an audio CD of "I Wanna Be George W. Bush" a while back, and the Funny Times did a several-page spread about Trebekistan in last month’s issue.  And today I realize I’ve managed to overlook so much as linking to them.

I’m busy, I’m mentally clogged, I’m absent-minded, whatever.  I beg their — and your — indulgence.

Reality becoming increasingly unacceptable

Chimpus Maximus has a new favorite word — "unacceptable" — which he has been steadily using more often:

In the first nine months of this year, Bush declared more than twice as many events or outcomes "unacceptable" or "not acceptable" as he did in all of 2005, and nearly four times as many as he did in 2004. He is, in fact, at a presidential career high in denouncing events he considers intolerable.

Funny.  Lots of his opponents have been using that same word for years.

If you’re just visiting after reading the paper or seeing the AP story online…

Welcome!  Make yourself at home.

Reviews and blurbs are in the left column, extras from the book are listed in the Trebekistan.com menu at right, and if you’d like to watch a reading and hear a sample of the book, be sure to click over to the videos.

If you’d like a copy for yourself or as a gift (and everyone knows somebody who watches Jeopardy! a lot), just click here or on the book cover at upper left.

Thanks!

(If you haven’t seen the AP story yet, it’s here.)