Hyperbole(n.) An exaggeration or extravagant statement used as a figure of speech(Untitled)- July 17, 2003 Tandem Ramble You know how when you were a kid, and you got to stay up late to watch Johnny Carson (Maybe you were too young for Carson. Work with me.), and you were really excited about it (Again, work with me) And then you found out that Carson wasn&146;t even hosting, that instead you were stuck with Richard Belzer or Robert Klein or some other schmuck, and you were totally bummed I&146;m Doug, and I&146;m your guest host tonight. God, that was a roundabout way of saying that this isn&145;t.http://blogs.salon.com/0001703/2003/07/17.html#a22 (Untitled)- July 16, 2003 I started to write some things about the brewing IraqintelligenceWMDyellowcake scandal. But I realized in editing a few ideas that there's too much to focus on. The Post called it a "feeding frenzy" and that's about right. The amount of information and opinion out there is just overwhelming. A few thoughts, though. --This is looking more and more and more like Watergate. Information trickling out gradually. The media really picking up steam. The public.http://blogs.salon.com/0001703/2003/07/16.html#a21 (Untitled)- July 16, 2003 I think I've got the links fixed now...http://blogs.salon.com/0001703/2003/07/16.html#a20 (Untitled)- July 16, 2003 We are only a few days from leaving. Our flight leaves on Monday night at 9:40--something like 7 hours to Frankfurt, and then a 30 hour layover there (intentional--we find it is easier to deal with kids if we break up long-ass flights) and then a 7 hour flight to Dubai, arriving the night of Wednesday the 23rd. When we last went through this, last August, we were headed to Tunis rather than Dubai. It was my first time living overseas, and I was pretty darned anxious about it. I didn&146;t know..http://blogs.salon.com/0001703/2003/07/16.html#a19 (Untitled)- July 15, 2003 OK, here's the deal, folks: Late last week, I downloaded some files that my computer kept saying were "Critical Windows Updates for XP". I figured they wouldn't do much, but since we have a high-speed connection here in the States I couldn't imagine how it could hurt. Oh, if only. One of the files was corrupted, and for technical reasons which I neither understand nor care about, I was no longer able to get my computer to run. I called Compaq, and the guy ran me...http://blogs.salon.com/0001703/2003/07/15.html#a12 |