Clues

Courtesy of Tom Tomorrow's blog, the business aspect of Bush's wannabe war. It doesn't get any more blatant than this.

And in the Sunday New York Times, a whole new way of looking at work. And it's not pleasant. (Note: Use salon as username and tabletalk as password)

And I may not be writing about Bush, but that doesn't mean I'm not going to point you in the direction of someone who is. Check out Ted Rall's latest vision through a geopolitical looking glass and decide whether you should laugh or cry. For you folks trolling through the archive, it's the Sept. 25 column.

This may not happen to you, but when I looked up the Rall column, I got a pop-up ad for Saudi Arabia, asking me if I wanted to know about how spiffy the kingdom is, in a United States-frame of mind, of course.

Right. Like people who regularly read Rall will have their minds changed by a small and annoying pop-up ad from an oil-rich nation which controls the U.S. like a drug dealer.

French Word of the Day

a propos de bottes (ah proh poh duh boht): "Speaking of boots"; by the way; to change the subject completely.