Weekend Recap

Fun stuffs from around the web this week.

• Aides Kept Extent of Katrina Damage from Bush (from Newsweek)
  
  "Bush can be petulant about dissent; he equates disagreement with disloyalty. After five years in office, he is surrounded largely by people who agree with him....When Hurricane Katrina struck, it appears there was no one to tell President Bush the plain truth."
  


• "A Fatal Incuriosity" by Maureen Dowd (from New York Times)
  
  "How many places will be in shambles by the time the Bush crew leaves office?"
  


• Bill Maher on Why Bush Should Quit (reposted by LawGeek)
  
  "Now it's time to do what you've always done best: lose interest and walk away. Like you did with your military service and the oil company and the baseball team. It's time."
  
  I don't normally agree with Bill Maher's flippant libertarianism, but this is a great idea. I'm reminded of Will Farrell's whining impersonation of Gee-Dub on Saturday Night Live. "Presidenting is hard!"
  


• David Letterman's Top Ten Questions for the FEMA Director Application (from Crooks and Liars)
  


• Lucky Ducky (from Tom, the Dancing Bug)
  
  Ruben Bolling's Lucky Ducky is an effective satire of the Wall Street Journal's assertion that the poor in America are "lucky duckies", and a memorable character in his own right. This week, Lucky Ducky reaps the benefits of the federal response to Katrina, including some condescending pratter from the former first-lady.
  


• Count Your Sheep's entry to the Webcomic Telethon
  
  On any given day, Adrian Ramos' strip is one of the most entertaining things on the web, and his submission to the Hurricane Katrina Webcomic Telethon is brilliant.
  


• Overturning the Gospels by Melinda Henneberger (from Newsweek)
  
  Bill McKibben's article in Harpers is also required reading. Three out of four Americans think "God helps those who help themselves" is scriptural.
  


• A History of the Stinking Bishop (from The Independent)
  
  How the new Wallace and Grommit movie has a cheese manufacturer worred. I'm so looking forward to this movie.