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George Bush's America
Presidency of dunces But the key expectation has proved spectacularly false. The savants told us there was little to choose between Gore, a Clintonite New Democrat, and Bush, a self-styled "compassionate conservative". Both were huddling in the soft centre: Tweedledum and Tweedledee. Whoever won, little would change. Well, no one's saying that now. For the promise that this would be a Republican Lite administration has proved naive, if not positively deceitful. Instead, in 100 short days, we have seen the Bush regime establish itself as the most brazenly rightwing of modern times. As the ecstatic head of the ultra-conservative Heritage Foundation enthuses, the new crowd are "more Reaganite than the Reagan administration". This is one of the articles from the Guardian. thanks to BookNotes
Scott Katz's TestingTesting was a lot of fun. Now to get ready for Dana "Cows With Guns" Lyon for next Monday's TestingTesting. We will be taking the TT living room down to the Bayview Cash Store at Bayview Corner for a paying audience.
The Mariners have started off with a bang. 15 and 4 in their first 19 games against their division. Second place, the Rangers, is 5.5 games out. Now on to New York, Chicago, Boston and Toronto. Then we will know if they are real. What am I saying! Of course they are real.
Everything is set up for tonight's webcast of TestingTesting. Things have been so busy that I didn't mention what a gas last Monday's TestingTesting was with David Ossman of the Firesign Theatre. David is a neighbor here on South Whidbey and graced us with some of his poetry. The TT House Band played and he picked poems on the fly to suit the music. Poetry and music work very well together as out TT regular Barton Cole has shown. Tonight we have Scott Katz and the Right Sisters. Very funny songs with an edge. We saw him open for Christine Lavin last November in Kirkland. It promises to be an exceptional show.
The Breaking In Of The New Computer Saga is almost over. Modems that didn't work and new drivers that needed to be downloaded. But all is mostly well now and much to catch up on...such as work. There seems to more nostalgia software sites out their. I reported earlier on finding Lode Runner. Now I find out that Dan Bricklin has re-released the original Visicalc for the IBM PC. Visicalc was the first actually useful program on the pc (personal computer - which can be Apple or IBM). It actually was developed on the Apple II. I first saw it on my Apple IIE that was my office computer in 1983. The same one that had Lode Runner on it. Back in the days when 128k of memory in RAM was *hot*. No hard drives and single sided 5 1/4 floppies. The hot set up was two floppy drives - one for the program and one for data. That was about the same time MTV started. At least computers have come a long way.
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