"I think being a woman is like being Irish." — Iris Murdoch

Nelson asked, "What are you so angry about?"

I said, "This Scooter Libby business makes me so angry!  And there's nothing I can do!"

He said, "Sure there is!  You can go to the internet and write something!"

Of course I know that it won't do anything except (maybe) make me feel a little better.

First off, I can see that I'm angry because I feel helpless.

I can laugh to some extent... I saw a headline that said, "He is so unpopular, he might as well do what he wants."  Referring of course to Bush finally hitting the all-time lowest presidental approval rating in history.

On some news show (Nelson is a TV news junkie), they were wondering what might Bush's "legacy" be?

I think that there will be two:  one for historians and one for us regular folk.

For regular people, Bush's legacy will be:

• he was a president and the son of a president!
• he said a LOT of goofy things, including that his biggest achievement was catching a fish
  
• he took more vacation time than any other president ever
• lowest approval rating of any president ever
  

and that will be it.  Nobody remembers who got us into Vietnam, and no one will remember who got us stuck in Iraq and Afghanistan.

Who did get us into Vietnam?  Somehow Oliver Stone blames Nixon, but wasn't it Eisenhower?  Or was it JFK?