“I’m really glad you and your beagle got to take a walk in the non-event of wherever it was you were that got brushed by Isabel, but I have a tree on my car, water in my living room, the neighbors got four feet of water in their place, my brother’s roof leaks, my parent’s car was completely smashed and the ceiling is bowed in the kitchen from accumulated rain, I have to boil my water, I just got my power back on a couple of hours ago, and half the rest of the state is still out of power. Yes, Virginia, there was a hurricane.” – more feedback on the Letters Page.
BUSHITLER WATCH: “Joseph Goebbels, Hitler’s propaganda chief (director of communications, in the current parlance), once said that if you are going to lie, you should tell a big lie. That may be good advice, but the question remains: What happens when people begin to doubt the big lie? Herr Goebbels never lived to find out. Some members of the Bush administration may be in the process of discovering that, given time, the big lie turns on itself.” – Andrew Greeley, Chicago Sun-Times.
The Dish 