if i only had a brain

birther:

i wouldn't while away the hours connectin' shady powers and wondrin' who's to gain and my head i'd stop a-scratchin' itchy plots it keeps a-hatchin' if i only had a brain ♫ i'd scoff at every riddle from every individ'le intol'rant or insane ♫

obama:

with the time you'd stop a-wastin' a real life you could be tastin' if you only had a brain ♫

birther:

oh, i wouldn't wonder why no judge will hear my roar i'd stop thinkin' things no one's thunk before and then i'd go and do some chores ♫ i would not be just a-huffin' my head all full of stuffin' my heart all full of pain i'd sober up and tell orly a new hobby she needs sorely if i only had a brain ♫

(transformative lyrics by aarrgghh)

what dick said

and, more importantly, what he didn't say ...

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*mid-atlantic shredding services
  (see also: zelikow memo)

ozymandias

just a friendly public reminder of how all dynasties end ...

i met a traveller from an antique land who said: "two vast and trunkless legs of stone stand in the desert. near them on the sand, half sunk, a shatter'd visage lies, whose frown and wrinkled lip and sneer of cold command tell that its sculptor well those passions read which yet survive, stamp'd on these lifeless things, the hand that mock'd them and the heart that fed. and on the pedestal these words appear:"

(december 19, 2000)

"my name is ozymandias, king of kings: look on my works, ye mighty, and despair!"

(from "bush at war" by bob woodward)

nothing beside remains: round the decay of that colossal wreck, boundless and bare, the lone and level sands stretch far away. — percy bysshe shelley (1818)

(may 5, 2006)

calling captain kirk

oregon congressman david wu on the floor of the house rebuking bush's plan to escalate our adventure in the middle east:

now, this president has listened to some people, the so-called vulcans in the white house, the ideologues. but unlike the vulcans of star trek, who made the decisions based on logic and fact, these guys make it on ideology. these aren't vulcans. there are klingons in the white house. but unlike the real klingons of star trek, these klingons have never fought a battle of their own. don't let faux klingons send real americans to war. it is wrong.

wu, a democrat, is chairman of the technology and innovation subcommittee of the house science and technology committee, and apparently an avid star trek fan:

he admitted friday that while recovering from a recent back injury, he watched "a whole basket of star trek tapes" lent to him by a neighbor. which star trek series or movie is his favorite? "i watch them all," wu said. "a terrible confession."