Slate has posted a review of the new Bush campaign ads. To me, Bush’s use of the images from 9/11, particularly of the flag draped coffin of a firefighter, are revolting. This is a man who has refused to cooperate with the 9/11 commission investigating the attacks. This is a man whose administration has barred journalists from photographing the coffins of American soldiers who were killed following his orders abroad. People know that Bush was the President when we were attacked, and they know how they feel about his leadership since the attack. He oughtn’t wallow in it.

When President Bush proposed his second tax cut, he told us it was an economic stimulus package. The economy is so stimulated that zero private sector jobs were added in February. Zero. None. 21,000 government jobs were added, all of which will be paid for with borrowed money, right? This sucks. Would we be adding jobs hand over fist if we had a Democrat in the White House? Honestly, probably not. But the huge deficits that are now a big part of our foreseeable future were pitched as a way to fix this employment problem, and that hasn’t exactly worked out. What’s the political cost of that?

Radley Balko has a post about something that really does affect all of our lives on a day to day basis — traffic lights. The town where I live has just started installing cameras at its most dangerous intersections, so this post is of particular interest to me.

William Saletan has an article advising John Kerry on how to beat President Bush that threw me at first, specifically in this passage:

He’s been telling Democrats Bush is “the biggest say-one-thing, do-another” president ever. Yesterday Kerry’s campaign responded to Bush’s ads by accusing the president of “unsteady leadership.” In the Democratic primaries, this accusation worked for Kerry, because liberals think Bush is a liar. But most voters don’t, for a good reason: It isn’t true. If Kerry makes the election a referendum on Bush’s honesty, Bush will win.

I’m a liberal, so I had trouble with this. It seemed to me that President Bush lies all the time. Saletan’s argument is that Bush doesn’t lie — he really believes the things he says. He’s probably right, and what President Bush does is worse than lying.

Josh Marshall has some issues with the list of Kerry waffles that Slate published yesterday. I’m still waiting for the table of President Bush waffles. I thought up a number today without even trying that hard.

When are companies, government agencies, and everyone else going to learn how revision control in Microsoft Word documents works? SCO has revealed portions of its sooper sekrit legal plans by sending out a Word document with the revision history intact. Couldn’t happen to a bigger bunch of jerks.

Last February, Marc Fisher argued that shock jocks are the real alternative to conservative talk radio. This February, Howard Stern read Al Franken’s book while he was on vacation, came back and badmouthed Bush, and then got fired by ClearChannel. That’s what I call getting it right.

The Motley Fool’s Seth Jayson is bearish on SCO based on the poor quarterly numbers they just released. The article says that SCO only brought in $20,000 in revenue in its Linux licensing program in the first quarter. Is that the EV1Servers.net license?

Finally, a judge has ordered SCO to put up or shut up. If SCO is honest about its allegations, they should be able to satisfy this request tomorrow.

The buck stops where?