I was musing yesterday in an email to a friend about the "strong artist" concept behind Iron Man. I just love the name of Obadiah's Iron Monger. The marketer ... the supply chain ... the pusher. It's big and lumbering, it's extremely powerful but it has all kinds of design defects about which it knows nothing. Its size and might are two of its best and worst attributes. After Steve Jobs explained to Paul McCartney the then-new concept of the internet, Paul merely nodded and said "now the future belongs to the artist" (which is why Macca had a fully functioning website the moment "the web" came into being). The internet does an end-run around the merchandiser that had previously strong-armed the supply chain to feed its wealth. That's why we're seeing so much corporate action against Youtube and other open centers of information dispersal. They're terrified of the fact we don't need them as a source any longer.

Okay, end of mini-riff.

Bush should have a bigtime bunker mentality these days. Scotty McClellan, former White House press secretary, has just published a scathing indictment (possibly literally) of the Bush White House. He clearly states in there stuff that should have indictments handed down on Cheney, Rove and their various Oompah Loompah. Here's a piece posted on Huffington Post. Speaking of Iron Monger (as we were), I should add that these indictments concern the "outing" of Valerie Plame as a CIA agent. Guess which country Valerie was spying on? Iran. Guess what she was, in part, tracking? Illegal shipment of weapons from the west to Iran. Gosh, I wonder why Cheney outed her. :( In doing so, he also gave up vital Iranian internal information that might have supplied the data on Iran's nuclear build-up (or lack of) and thereby lessened the threat of Washington bombing Iran. Guess which military company is selling no-bid munitions to the military? You got it. Cheney's Halliburton.

Vincent Bugliosi (former LA District Attorney who has prosecuted dozens of murder cases and never lost one ... including the Manson trials) has written a book simply titled "The Prosecution of George W. Bush for Murder" in which he lays out the groundwork for a criminal prosecution. This is a very important legal writer and possibly one of the most important books of our times. Here's an excerpt again on Huffington Post.

Lastly and far less importantly, I've redone the front end of my website to make it more user-friendly (you see, I do read my visitor mail!)