Sometimes the answer isn’t as interesting as the question. Consider this note from Yahoo Buzz:
On Sunday, the day before the nomination became official, [searches for] Alito sprang up a sudden 320%.
Did searches for Alito spike on tips White House staffers, or were White House Staffers vetting their nominee via the search engines?

tags: buzz, google, judge [...]

Posted November 3, 2005 by Casey Bisson
Categories: Libraries & Networked Information, Politics & Controversy, Technology. Tags: buzz, google, judge alito, nomination, nominee, samuel alito, search, search engines, spike, supreme court, supreme court nominee, web search, white house, white house staffers, yahoo, yahoo search. Be the first one.

Don’t worry. I’m right on top of whatever happens in Pravda, the leading newspaper of the Russian Federation. Or, at least, I’m right on top of whatever they report in their English language version. The thing that had me choking on my onion and boursin cheese bagel this morning was the story headlined FBI arrests [...]

Posted October 13, 2005 by Casey Bisson
Categories: Books, Movies, Music. Tags: america, american, boursin cheese, cia, espionage, fbi, fbi arrests, mccarthyism, philippine revolution, politics, pravda, russia, spies, spy, terrorist attacks, usa, white house. One Comment.

Two items from the blogosphere about Rove’s Leak-and-Covergate at Tikun Olam and AlterNet.

tags: alternet, bush, coverup, george bush, george w bush, karl rove, rove, tikun olam, w, white house

Posted July 24, 2005 by Casey Bisson
Categories: Blink, Politics & Controversy. Tags: alternet, bush, coverup, george bush, george w bush, karl rove, rove, tikun olam, w, white house. One Comment.

First Lady Laura Bush speaking at the White House Correspondents Association gala noted:
George’s answer to any problem at the ranch is to cut it down with a chain saw. Which, I think, is why he and Cheney and Rumsfeld get along so well.
The quote is all over the net now, but I found it in [...]

Posted July 18, 2005 by Casey Bisson
Categories: Blink, Politics & Controversy. Tags: chain saw, cheny, cut it down, dick cheney, donald rumsfeld, first lady, george, george bush, george w bush, laura bush, president, problem management, rumsfeld, vanity fair, w, white house, white house correspondents association. One Comment.