Would You Buy a Used Car from This Turkey?

Gail Collins rips on America's favorite drag queen, His Honor da May-errr!, in today's New York Times, pointing out with glee that Rudy's primary concern in protecting America is in protecting Rudy and further pointing out that he doesn't always do such a good job of it, at least not when it comes to hiding his indiscretions (womanizing, associating with known felons) from the press. That seems to happen when you use lots of taxpayer moneys.

Here's a tidbit that you just gotta love:

When he was mayor, he got a whole lot of … [security]. The city was at one point paying for police guards to protect and transport not only Rudy, his children and his elderly mother, but also both his wife and his mistress. Really, they were this close to assigning a detail to the family retriever and a springer spaniel he was courting down the block.

(Gail Collins "Rudy's Security Blanket"1 Dec 07)

And then there's this:

The conflation of the safety of Rudy with the safety of New York reached its peak on 9/11, when the entire public security leadership of the city left ground zero in order to protect the mayor in his walk uptown. [In] … the aftermath, … he tried to postpone the mayoral election under the theory that the factor most critical to our survival was his continued presence at the helm.

(Gail Collins "Rudy's Security Blanket"1 Dec 07)

And we all thought it was Bush who was most likely to suspend the Constitution in order to remain dictator for life.


Technology:

Yes, I finally did it; I downloaded and installed SeaMonkey, Mozilla's successor to the Netscape and Mozilla Web suits. I have to admit that I put it off for a long time, figuring any software with a name that weird must be suitable only for the online gaming crowd. Guess I was just bored one day.

The installation went perfectly, and all my settings were transferred. In short, it runs great, just in case you've a mind to try a slightly different Web experience. The suit includes a browser, editor, RSS feed, chat, and my favorite, a very quick and nimble news reader/email client. All the stuff that I learned to love in Netscape, but never seemed to work right for me in the Mozilla suits.