Stuff I Blog about

A friend recently asked me why I only write about upsetting things in my blog. It is a valid question I think.

I guess I could write about my cats.


Or I could write about my daughter.


Or I could write about Bif Naked


Or I could write about the fact that my company has helped to recover 146 missing kids.


And all of those things would be great stuff to blog about. But for the most part I do tend to talk about stuff that pisses me off


or confuses me


or just makes me go "what the fuck was that"


because that is what gets me engaged enough to start typing.

Yale BA and Harvard MBA huh?

From Reuters with a h/t to Air America Radio for twigging me to the story.

The White House was left scrambling to explain after a marked-up draft of Bush's speech popped up briefly on the U.N. Web site as he delivered his remarks, giving a rare glimpse of the special guidance he gets for major addresses.

It included phonetic spellings for French President Nicolas Sarkozy (sar-KO-zee), a friend, and Zimbabwe leader Robert Mugabe (moo-GAH-bee), a target of U.S. human rights criticism.

Pronunciations were also provided for Kyrgyzstan (KEYR-geez-stan), Mauritania (moor-EH-tain-ee-a) and the Zimbabwe capital Harare (hah-RAR-ray).

Now I know that we cannot expect the president to be as quick as a news anchor but the only one of those that I will accept is even remotely tricky is Kyrgyzstan. This guy is the leader of the most powerful country in the frigging world and he needs help to pronounce Harare.

I live about midway between Harvard and Yale and suddenly I don't really have a warm fuzzy feeling about sending a child to either of them.