A study by two nonprofit journalism organizations* found that President Bush and top administration officials issued hundreds of false statements about the national security threat from Iraq in the two years following the 2001 terrorist attacks.The study concluded that the statements “were part of an orchestrated campaign that effectively galvanized public opinion and, in the process, led the nation to war under decidedly false pretenses.” The study was posted Tuesday

Nick Denton’s unexpectedly heroic stance against the litigious Church of Scientology, hosting a Tom Cruise-based indoctrination video, then responding to the inevitable copyright infringement notice with four more clips – including the Freedom Medal Award Ceremony – inspired me to recall former teen idol Leif Garrett’s take on a related controversy.

This is awesome.  Not to brag or anything, but I never did the AOL thing.  It always amazed me that there were so many people who didn’t get that all you needed was Netscape and an IP.  I do remember having a 9400-Baud modem, though.  Took ten minutes just to download one lousy 56k dirty picture.  Update:  Very funny, Dan.  So, what were you buggering if it wasn’t goats?  As