Octopodial Chrome

The Left have raised the question: did Bush lie? This may be audacious, considering their own track record, but it is a valid issue. The Christian Science Monitor’s John Hughes examines the evidence and concludes that Bush did not, in fact, lie. Hussein had spent the last decades convincing the world, his allies, his enemies and even his own generals that he had chemical weapons—but he did not. There was no way for our president to know that Hussein was bluffing. We called his bluff, and he lost.

Agents of the federal Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco & Firearms assaulted a college student returning home from a pirates-and-ninjas event. One agent was quoted, Seeing someone with something across the face, from a federal standpoint—that’s not right. I’m wondering why there’s any federal standpoint involved. Amusingly, the agents in the included picture are quite pot-bellied…

Not many folks today remember Gopher a once-popular precursor to the World Wide Web. And yet there are those who regret its passing, believing that it had much to offer; some are even keeping the dream alive by running their own Gopher sites. Others point out that Gopher and the Web are equally bad replacements for the client-and-protocol world which came before.

I tend to agree with this last point of view. There was a time when file transfer called for a File Transfer Protocol, mail called for a Simple Mail Transfer Protocol; there were even protocols for phone directories and so forth: each did one thing, and did it well. Nowadays everything is crammed into a web browser, which does all things, none of them well.

Accordion Guy has a harrowing tale of a girlfriend who completely made up her life—from where she worked, to her history, to her family. A lesson for us all.