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[*RING* *RING* … *RING* *RING*]
BLAIR: mmmf… ehm… hello?
BUSH: Tonenstein! Bushy. Just got the message that you called.
BLAIR: Hmmm.. wha? George, it’s three in the morning here.
BUSH: Huh. Weird. It’s not nearly that late out here. You guys in the middle of August?
BLAIR: Yes. […]

“I view it as a wake-up call,” Bush told reporters during a visit to the Santa Monica mountains, adding that the blackout was “an indication we need to modernize the electricity grid.”
-President Bush, August 15, 2003
“Our nation has been put on notice: We are not immune from attack. We will take defensive measures […]

Looks like I picked the right week for a vacation (working or otherwise). Between the slapstick California recall and Fox News attempting to block the publication of Al Franken’s new opus, there’s really plenty of entertainment out there that has no need of us satirical middlemen.
Of the two stories, I prefer the Franken-bashing, if […]

Coming this fall to a quality bookseller near you:
“The Nth Degree” by Michael Crichton
There’s this thing that used to be okay, but then someone started messing with it in the name of this really hot new scientific idea. But now the thing’s gone totally out of control and people are dying! Can […]

For the next week, postings on this site may be a little sporadic. Or they may get a little weird. See, I’ll be in Wareham, MA, rehearsing a play I wrote for myself and a 10 year-old. We’ll spend the whole week pretending to be Vikings.
Now before you call the cops, let […]

I’m disappointed - Rep. Darrell Issa has withdrawn from the California Governor’s race. Maybe it’s because he read yesterday’s entry here at Fanatical Apathy, but that’s no excuse. As the man who initiated the recall effort and then spent nearly two million dollars on it, he owes it to the people of California […]

From the Guardian Unlimited - All would-be candidates for the governorship of California have to file their nomination papers by Saturday. So far, 344 people have taken out the necessary papers to run and pundits predict that at least 100 of them will have their names on the ballot when the matter comes before the […]

While perusing some of my site statistics this afternoon, I grazed through a list of where my visitors were coming from… I found the usual suspects, all the best n’ brightest: Oliver Willis, Eschaton, Free Republic, the Nielsen Haydenses…
- waitaminute. Free Republic!?
Yep. There it was. Hundreds of hits, in fact. […]

WASHINGTON (CNN) — The White House expects that President Bush would have to assemble a new foreign policy team, including a secretary of state, if he wins a second term, administration officials said Monday.
- from CNN
INT BUSH’S CRAWFORD OFFICE - DAY
[President Bush is at his desk, contemplating his collection of souvenir snow-globes. Also […]

I’ve got far too much work to go out and play today. This is probably a good thing - it’s the kind of muggy, East Coast summer’s day that is extremely comfortable for those who happen to have gills. There’s not so much a “breeze” as a “current.” So I’ll content myself […]