Celebrity cook

Last night I watched with amusement and surprise as a news piece on the new White House head chef and the fact that this one's the first woman to hold the position. Why, I wondered, was this making the news? Ah, it makes sense if one considers that Bush is getting a lot of bad press over a woman camped near his Texas retreat, demanding to speak to him and have him tell her why the US is in Iraq and why her son died a pointless death. Bush apparantly met with her before, but didn't know her name or the name of her dead son and kept trying to act as if he was at a party.

The White House probably sent out a nice media package to be "consumed" by all relating to the new chef at the White House. A tasty diversion from Bush's otherwise unpalatable life at the moment. At least he's alive.

Fisking the War on Terror

Juan Cole gives a summary of the rise of radicals and the War on Terror from Reagan to the present. This summary would not meet with agreement from George Bush, I think.