March 22nd, 2006
And the world wasn’t left any worse with its passing.
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| Review of a Presidential press conference wherein Bush asserted he never wanted to go to war. His labored explanation(s) were never followed up or disputed in the slightest by those reporters present in the WH Press Corp:
I’m glad the president, after a record low number of news conferences in his first term, is meeting the press more. But he does not seem to be changing many minds. |
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In the year 1598 AD, Portuguese sailors landing on the shores of the island of Mauritius discovered a previously unknown species of bird, the Dodo. Having been isolated by its island location from contact with humanity, the dodo greeted the new visitors with a child-like innocence. The sailors mistook the gentle spirit of the dodo, and its lack of fear of the new predators, as stupidity. They dubbed the bird “dodo” (meaning something similar to a simpleton in the Portuguese tongue). Many dodo were killed by the human visitors, and those that survived man had to face the introduced animals. By the year 1681, the last dodo had died, and the world wasn’t left any worse with its passing.
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March 23rd, 2006 at 5:23 pm
very good. nive balance in present/past, pic/words. on the oneliner side I’d add: one less specie to get bird flu from.. yes?
March 23rd, 2006 at 5:50 pm
Heh, that’s true. Gosh, the pay at the Post must be too good if you are left wondering why nobody want’s to listen to Bush anymore. Thanks for coming by
wbm
March 24th, 2006 at 7:12 pm
[…] I have never been much for blog triumphalism. Aside from being self-aggrandizing, it didn’t seem to me to be particularly ralistic that blogs would replace the mainstream media. But I am actually beginning to think that what we know as the mainstream press might end up going the way of the Dodo bird after all. […]