I really have a hard time thinking of what I could possibly say to accompany this report by Seymour Hersh in the New Yorker. Is it possible to be so numb that nothing this Administration does, no matter how bad, can surprise you any more? It seems to become only one more case of them lying and obscuring any evidence of their incompetence and venality.
The Washington Post reports on a shortage of personnell in the U.S. Attorney’s offices. What a shock. After the abuse of the system that this Administration slipped into the Patriot Act was repealed by popular demand many attorneys are now only in their jobs on an interim basis, as many as 25% of the attorneys. Normally these are prestigious jobs that attract some of the best lawyers since the jobs were considered great entries on a legal resume. Are they going to be so for those who have it as an entry between the years of 2001 and 2008, though? I tend to agree with Charles Schumer’s view.
“If we had a credible attorney general at the helm, we wouldn’t be scrambling to fill vacancies,” Schumer said. “Instead, top legal talent would be flocking to the department.”
I just finished the sixth Harry Potter book so now I’m waiting for the last one to come out. To start keeping me busy until the last book in the series is delivered I’m switching gears to mysteries for the next book in my queue which will be A Wicked Snow by Gregg Olsen. I think I’ll probably finish two or three books by the time Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows is delivered to my door.
The title of this blog obviously (or not) comes from the James Carville exhortation to the Clinton campaign in 1992. As surely as that message was important for that political campaign I think that remembering that it’s not the 1950s or any other decade/century in the past any longer at a deep level of understanding is important to discourse on every subject in the public sphere. People in their 50s or above who fail to understand why the truths they grew up with just don’t necessarily apply any longer irritate me no end.
As for me, I’m just a semi-elderly (for what I do) semi-geek who’s worked with PCs for 25 years while being an active science fiction fan as well. What do I mean by work with? Put them together. Keep them going. Program them. Network them. Explain them to other people. Troubleshoot them. Basically anything that has to do with a PC.
That having been said computer science was my third college major with the first two being chemistry and education with a speech and drama emphasis and english minor. What can I say? I also took classes that advisors frowned upon for not relating directly to my major(s). But they were interesting. A counselor once looked at my transcript and commented that most people are either good at the arts and social sciences or the hard sciences but my record looked pretty evenly balanced. Yep. When I retire I think I want to be a college student.
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