Expected errors

You know, it always makes me snicker when Windows puts up a message on my desktop saying "Windows has experienced an unexpected error..."

This is WINDOWS we're talking about.  There are no unexpected errors.  If hordes of flaming monkeys suddenly boil forth from the back of the computer case and commit mass ritual seppuku in the middle of the floor, one should properly just shrug, think "Well, that's Windows for you", and check whether any of them need the assistance of a kaishakunin.

Oh, and keep a sharp eye out for flying poo.

Neocons turn on the Bush administration

This makes for some interesting reading ... several of the very neoconservatives who backed Bush-Rove-Cheney and maneuvered them into power are now condemning the Bush administration as incompetent, dysfunctional, and the architects of a catastrophe in Iraq.

Kenneth Adelman, a lifelong neocon activist and Pentagon insider who served on the Defense Policy Board until 2005, [...] says, "I just presumed that what I considered to be the most competent national-security team since Truman was indeed going to be competent.  They turned out to be among the most incompetent teams in the post-war era.  Not only did each of them, individually, have enormous flaws, but together they were deadly, dysfunctional."

Adelman says that he now believes neoconservatism itself is dead for a generation or longer.

And then there's this comment:

David Frum: "I always believed as a speechwriter that if you could persuade the president to commit himself to certain words, he would feel himself committed to the ideas that underlay those words.  And the big shock to me has been that although the president said the words, he just did not absorb the ideas.  And that is the root of, maybe, everything."

I just don't think I can add anything to that statement.  Seriously, I got nothin'.

Wait, yes I do, but I have to borrow the quote from tquid, aka the Rev. JB:

The boy has a staggering capacity for self-delusion.  I'd try to share the original rationalization, but it's so twisted my mind can't hold it.

"Sorry, the compiler optimization made all the bullshit go poof."

Seriously, the neocons were trying to steer the policy of the Bush Administration based on the idea that if you can get someone to parrot a word, he'll automatically understand and buy into the ideas you had in mind when you wrote it?  I'm almost speechless.