A Generation of Swine

Microsoft, the technological touchstone for all things internet, is in hot water with Wikipedia for breaking their rules. For those of you who don’t know, one of the few rules for posting at Wiki is no marketing companies and no conflict of interest posts. It’s what keeps the site from becoming just a big sounding board for every dope with a message. Pretty much everyone who uses Wikipedia knows this rule (and even a lot of people who have never even looked anything up there). Why, then, Microsoft thinks its ok to pay bloggers to shill for their company on entries describing open-source (read: Microsoft competition) products is completely beyond my grasp. Microsoft, for their part claim to be “baffled at Wikipedia’s response…”

Dick (Dick Cheney, that is) says that the idea that blunders were made in Iraq is “hogwash.” He went on to say “I simply don’t accept that.” Considering that his boss (ok, does anybody really believe that Cheney takes orders from Bush??), the President had just admitted to mistakes having been made the night before Cheney called the idea hogwash… I’m left believing that the source of this administration’s strategy of: “If we say it, then people will believe it’s true!” is likely Dick Cheney. That might work on the Christian right Dick, but some of us can read. Dick.

A twenty-nine-year-old pedophile enrolled in an Arizona school as a seventh grader. They caught him on his most recent attempt because they thought his “guardian” (a former cell mate, doh!) didn’t look trustworthy but a nearby school system said he was enrolled there for several months. He probably would have been there longer had he not been dropped for poor attendance. I would have thought that if the prison tats didn’t give him away that the razor nicks surely would have.

And perhaps the most amusing thing I’ve seen of late is that Barack Obama is calling for universal health care. Who was the last person to propose that? Oh yeah, that chick from Arkansas, what’s her name? Hillary.