The Opinionated Bastard

I figured I'd better post this today, so that in a week or so I can claim I knew it all along and get Glenn Reynolds to Instalanche me.

The whole Valarie Plame thing is going to turn out to be nothing. What's going to happen is that “everyone” knew Wilson had a wife that used to do something at the CIA, but no one had quite put it together that meant she was a spy, they all thought she was an analyst including whoever Novak talked to in the administration. (Given that the CA employes like 100 analysts for every spy, normally its a safe bet.)

So Novak publishes, then David Corn at the Nation puts it together that she wasn't publicly a spy given that “CIA” appeared nowhere on her resume. He publishes, suddenly she is “outed” which isn't a big deal given that she was married to a high-profile State Department guy, she wasn't exactly Jennifer Garner. But her co-workers get outed too which is a big deal.

Sure, its a colossal fuckup. But its not treason. Everything Wilson said is going to turn out to just be paranoia.

I always say never put down to evil what can more easily be subscribed to stupidity. Lots of people were stupid in this affair. Novak, the CIA, the Adminstration guy, Wilson.

But no one was treasonous. If being stupid was illegal, half of Congress would be in jail, and the other half would be on trial.

I myself was stupid just yesterday, and later today, I plan on being stupid some more. Its my god-given right as an American, a citizen of the world, and a blogger.

Just felt like a Rant. I’m in California on a business trip, and I’m in the worst part of California, the North Bay in San Francisco, so I’m surrounded by elitist-yuppie-scum who think they are so enlightened and liberal, when really they are the worst sort of snobs, Mercedes-driving-hippies. I got stuck behind this car on the freeway that was belching black smoke as it proudly proclaimed that it ran on “free used vegetable oil”. No doubt that was why it smelled like burnt french fries.

It’s only been 2 days of gritting my teeth while listening to this claptrap about how the US has killed 100,000 Iraqis (27,000, and that’s about 1/12th of what Saddam would have killed in a year), how our soldiers are nazis, how Iraq is Vietnam, how their free speech is being oppressed, all the same tired rhetoric I became a blogger to escape, and already I’m about to explode.

So here goes.

Technorati Tags: 2000 Election, 2004 Election, Bush, Gore, Iraq, Kerry, Vietnam

Could he go back to obscurity already? Geesh.

While its true that Americans don’t study other languages besides English, we are fascinated by other cultures.

KARL ROVE, MacHead:

NB: All right, I've got just one more quick question for you. Last time I saw you, you'd just gotten an iPhone. How's that working out for you?

ROVE: I love it. My life has changed. I have a shred of coolness. I've got my 3,500 people in my addressbook on the phone, I can sync my calendar. I keep track of my modest little stock investments. I can check the weather of my house in Washington, my house in Florida, my boy at school, my hunt-lease in south Texas. I can surf the web, I'm just--I get part of my email there.

I mean it is just shocking how much better, how much more productive I am. I no longer carry around a giant address book, if I don't have my calendar close at hand, I can quickly check it out of my-- I don't have to carry, I used to carry several notecards, now it's just as easy to scribble on my little notepad, I can take photographs and forward them on immediately, it's just remarkable.

NB: All right. Well it sounds like Steve Jobs should call you up as a spokesman.

ROVE: There we go, there we go. And not only that, I also have the Mac Book Air which is really cool. Even my wife is jealous of my MacBook Air.

Perhaps a lucrative spokesperson gig is in his future.

[From KARL ROVE, MacHead: NB: All right, I've got...]