The White House made a big splash about the formation of the Iraq Study Group, a bipartisan group headed by James Baker, which is charged with advising the President about future Iraq policies.  Asked today whether that meant the prez is considering a change in "strategy," Tony Snow's response resembled a linguistic pretzel as he tried to reconcile the traditional mantra that the President had no intention of changing "strategy," with the Baker group's mission:

Most thinking people I know get a physical reaction to the sight and sound of our esteemed Vice President. In a speech in Indiana today, he certainly demonstrated one reason for the instinctual alarm: that is one arrogant and self-righteous son-of-a-gun.

What this comes down to is that if you have problems with identity theft, actual or potential, all the big phone companies will assist you to reasonable lengths, politely and quickly. All but one that is, Cingular. Cingular will do everything in its power not to assist, up to and including lying to you. Avoid Cingular if you are at all worried about your safety, they are far worse than having no use, it is actively antagonistic. Time to call T-Mobile. Can anyone recommend a good plan?

Thanks to Federal Judge Ricardo M. Urbina, the world is one large step closer to learning exacty who the incredibly secretive Dick Cheney has been meeting with.

She was not, uh, in, she, I, I don't, uh you know, like I said, uh, she might have been tipsy. Uh, she didn't walk in a straight line. That's for sure. Cause she, you know, bump into ya when you're walking along and, you know, I didn't think anything of that. And just helping this lady, and that was all.

Does it ever stop now?  Say hello to yet another two Republican members of the House who appear to have managed to use their official offices for personal gain of on kind or another.

In a forum on C-SPAN, PJ O'Rourke said that altruists are the second most dangerous people in the world, behind only the "true sociopaths...Altruists.  Who knows where they're coming from?"

I couldn't add much to this absurdity, so here's the relevant excerpt from an Alaskan newspaper:

Every time I see a bizarre smear attack on a political candidate, I look for the corresponding news story that probably produce the panic which led to the smear.

Do you find the word "slavishly" to have ugly connotations?  Do you think it implies that the person whose actions are described is somehow actually acting as a slave?

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