Arnold Schwarzenegger Auditions For New Role -- 'Governator'

Ah yes

Arnold's gift to headline writers

Schwarzenegger Announces Calif. Gov. Bid

Let's see:

"Davis' total recall"
"Arnold to play the Governator"
"Davis Terminated?"
"Arnold confirms he's The Running Man"
"Davis' Judgement Day"

and that's just off the top of my head.

At any rate, I think Davis might be in trouble.

While we were attacking Iraq...

Iran Closes In on Ability to Build a Nuclear Bomb

Purported al-Qaida message warns U.S. on detainees

Here's why it's hard to take threats like this too seriously: they're already "at war" with us and, presumably, trying their best to attack us again. There's no such thing as going after us "110%."

Never mind

Flip-flop on air marshal schedules

Pennywise and pound foolish

Air marshals pulled from key flights

"The decision to drop coverage on flights that many experts consider to be at the highest risk of attack apparently stems from a policy decision to rework schedules so that air marshals don’t have to incur the expense of staying overnight in hotels."

Discovering Gold

I spent the day going to and strolling Pasadena, courtesy of the new Gold Line extention of the light rail system. They were giving everyone free rides and having mini-celebrations at each stop. Much to my amazment, the trains were standing-room only, each stop was packed and the guy said the wait to get on was three hours earlier in the day. I thought only I was geeky enough to be curious about a mass transit system.

I also used a Border's gift certificate I got for my birthday to buy three Brazilian music CDs, two of which turned out to be pretty cool compilations.

TV images of sons shock many Arabs

Are they kidding? Dead bodies are to Arab TV what freeway car chases are to Los Angeles TV.

Yes, I'll definitely wait until Fall to visit

Phoenix: where candles melt indoors

The crappiest place on Earth?

According to this Disnleyland news site, they're basically shutting down Tomorrowland.

Like I've been saying for years...

High-Tech Votes Can Be Hacked, Scientists Say

I'm all for high-tech voting, but these systems all should have a publicly verifiable paper-trail.

Nice Flash animation

Damage Control, Inc. by Mark Fiore

Cosmonaut scraps wedding in space

Apparently, they had drifted apart

Thanks, folks. I'll be in town all week. Be sure to tip your waitresses.

Happy Birthday to me...

Yes I'm 34, and boy, do I feel old.

Andrea organized a birthday dinner for me in Palo Alto, and I got to see some old friends from the newspaper. The dinner was great -- a little Italian place we'd never heard of -- with an odd mixture of Brazilians and Americans. Concidentally, there was another American with a Brazilian significant. She's from Phoenix, went to ASU and knows a good friend of mine from school. Small planet.

Why Bush's intellectual curiosity matters

Warning in Iraq Report Unread

President Bush and his national security adviser did not entirely read the most authoritative prewar assessment of U.S. intelligence on Iraq, including a State Department claim that an allegation Bush would later use in his State of the Union address was "highly dubious," White House officials said yesterday.

Remember the notion during the '00 campaign that it didn't matter whether Bush was studious, or even smart? Now it seems his so-called leadership -- or the thoughtless, unquestioning self-confidence that passes for it -- got us into an expensive war we didn't need to start.

Car Plows Through Crowd in Santa Monica, Killing 9

Car Plows Through Crowd in Santa Monica, Killing 9

Yes, this is a big story. But 50 reporters (yes, I counted) to cover it? That's more than they had covering the Iraq war!

Breakable

Orbitz blames Oracle for site outage

What he said

War, lies and yellowcake

"My sense is, they really did believe they were going to find WMDs, and that it was therefore okay to lie about it beforehand, because they knew they’d ultimately be vindicated. Of course, they also thought they could just install Ahmed Chalabi as some sort of Presidential Puppetman and retreat into the sunset to a soundtrack of cheering Iraqi throngs. This is what happens when you have CEO’s running a government like a business: no one around them is in a position to tell them that they are living in a fantasy world. And when reality fails to conform to their fantasies, they are perhaps the most shocked of all."

It all depends how you define "intelligence"

President defends intelligence team

No, it's not just about 16 little words

20 Lies About the War