Patrick M Brennan

For the first time ever, George W. Bush has said that “We’re not winning” in Iraq. But, just so everyone’s clear, he also pointed out that we’re not losing, either.

See? Every time he holds out the tantalizing possibility that he’s actually capable of perceiving reality, he yanks it away the very next moment.

So … if we’re not winning in Iraq, and we’re not losing, than what exactly are we doing? Linning? Wosing?

Hey, news flash, Mr. “War President“: it’s a WAR. If you’re not WINNING, you’re LOSING. And the fact that you can’t perceive this, or talk straight about it, is one more tiny brick in the enormous edifice you have built – positive proof, for all who care to look, that inherited privilege and virtually inherited office is a prescription for bad government.

She’s very fetching. Unfortunately, that’s not an adjective which can be applied to the search engine she’s fronting for. Google doesn’t need a Flash preloader, either, or tell a joke even before it’ll let me search.

True story…

The middle of the night. HE and SHE are in bed. HE is vigorously shaking his wife.

HE: Honey, wake up!

SHE: (waking from a nightmare) What? Huh?

HE: Are you OK?

SHE: (Still disoriented) What? Why did you wake me up?

HE: You were having a nightmare!

SHE: I was? What – did I say anything?

HE: You were yelling.

SHE: Oh, that’s right.

HE: You remember?

SHE: Kind of.

HE: You were yelling, “You’ll never get away with it!”

SHE: Oh, yeah, that’s right.

HE: Who were you yelling at?

SHE: White House Press Secretary Tony Snow.

HE: (suppressing a chuckle) White House Press Secretary Tony Snow?

SHE: Yeah. It was a dream, OK?

HE: OK. What was he doing?

SHE: He was about to molest a child.

(A long beat.)

HE: Was her name Truth?