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Perusing “Ask The White House” the other day, I learned that Assistant Treasury Secretary Rob Nichols thinks Betty Rubble is a hottie. The Bush administration launched “Ask The White House” (www.whitehouse.gov/ask/) last April, with characteristic failure to anticipate the consequences of its actions. The interactive site is part Ari Fleischer and part Strong Bad: The American people submit generally incoherent and ungrammatical questions by e-mail, and then the administration official of the day attempts to answer them. Wholly unintended mirth ensues...
...American people—all of us—are nuts. And Rob Nichols thinks Betty is hotter than Wilma. But then, who doesn’t? What really disturbed me about “Ask The White House” were the occasional glimmers of the Bush officials’ insanity...
...cast is headed by James Spader as defense lawyer Alan Shore, an ethically challenged former embezzler who uses his powers of sleaze to help his colleagues, his clients and his self-interest. The gamble seems to have worked. The show topped NBC's heavily touted Rob Lowe drama, The Lyon's Den, and Spader's complex, even sympathetic performance gives the show more interest than it has had in years. (A stunt casting turn by Sharon Stone helped too.) The old characters, Kelley says, "would always do the right moral thing at the end of the day. That occasioned...
...more bluntly, our country's critical data systems are the World Trade towers, and the hijacked planes are heading in their direction. Criminals have discovered how much easier it is to rob banks with a keyboard than a mask and gun. Will terrorists figure out how to shut down the banking system and strangle the economy? Information technology controls the nation's physical infrastructure--nuclear plants, air-traffic control, water systems--like a central nervous system. "Hits against the IT network will cascade to the other critical infrastructures," Stolfo said. (Consider the cascading effect of this year's blackout...
...group hadn’t skated together for any substantial length of time before, and didn’t even begin the weekend together. Senior Rob Fried was slated to go with longtime pass-pals Cavanagh and Pettit, but everything changed early Friday night, when senior second-line wing Kenny Turano went down with a ankle broken in two places that will likely require surgery and a three-month rehabilitation...