Why do the media (and others) talk about 500 American casualties in Iraq? Casualty means “injured, killed, captured, or missing in action through engagement with an enemy” [American Heritage Dictionary]. There have been 500+ killed. Clearly many more, possibly hundreds more, have been wounded.
Day: January 22, 2004
What was Dean thinking?
When David Letterman played the video Tuesday night on CBS’s “Late Show,” Dean’s head appeared to explode at the end of the speech. “Did you see Howard Dean ranting and raving?” he asked the audience. “Here’s a little tip, Howard: cut back on the Red Bull.”
On NBC’s “Tonight Show,” host Jay Leno joked: “I’m not an expert in politics, but I think it’s a bad sign when your speech ends with your aides shooting you with a tranquilizer gun.”
New Year’s Eve Times Square
If you have a high-speed connection and QuickTime you can enjoy New Year’s Eve in Times Square with a Full Screen QTVR panoramic image — and use your mouse to make yourself dizzy.
Miserable failure
Type miserable failure into Google and you still get the same result — the official White House biography of George W. Bush — but Jimmy Carter, Michael Moore and Hilary Rodham Clinton are moving up.
Google French military victories and read the first entry of the search results.
Read Engineering Google Results to Make a Political Point in The New York Times if you want to know more.
Wild, unpredictable and dangerous
