We're Doomed

On a day in New York that is so humid I feel like I'm imploding, I am overcome by the feeling that this country is headed down...well, as Representative Stevens would say, down the tubes.

OK, maybe I've been reading too many anti-Bush administration books, like The One Per Cent Doctrine that I've just finished. One reads a few like that (or, say, COBRA 2) and it's easy to see the multitude of mistakes and deception carried out by this administration. Still, looking past that, what do we find today? We find the Senator from Alaska waxing on about the Internet and Net Neutrality, and we find our President giving the German Chancellor a quickie back rub that she obviously did not appreciate.

Find info on Stevens here: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ted_Stevens
Find footage of the back rub here: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_8T7_NSvPME&mode=related&search=bush%20angela%20merkel

Note that the rub and the (as Jon Stewart so nicely put it) "disengagement" from President Bush occurred BEFORE the open mouth/potty mouth episode with Tony Blair at the G8 summit discussed previously on this blog.

WHAT THE HELL IS GOING ON??????

Look, I don't expect Stevens to understand the Internet. I barely understand its inner workings and I've been in tech for >20 years. But if you are the chairman of the US Senate Committee on Commerce, Science and Transportation and MAKING POLICY about the damn thing, it might make sense to be a bit better educated about the Internet. Further, whether what Bush did is major or not, it is IMPROPER. Anyone who has been in corporate America long enough - oops, I forgot, Bush was elevated to the top, never IN the corporate world, so to speak - knows that one does not simply go up to a colleague of the opposite sex (or even the same sex), give him/her a quick neck rub, and go on. But Bush did this to the Chancellor of Germany, for crying out loud!! And by her reaction, she was obviously neither amused nor refreshed by the rub.

Never - I think, though I could be wrong - has such an abundance of stupidity been made more obvious than what is occurring in our government every day.