Maybe Bush's problem was just that he used Google.....

[qatarperegrine]

I was just trying to look up something about Iraq's nuclear program in the '80s, so I Googled Iraq nuclear history.

Try it.

I often appreciate that Google searches for variants on the words we input -- that if I search for tutor conference, for example, I also get webpages that talk about tutoring conferences. But someone really needs to tell them that Iraq and Iran are not synonyms!

Update, 30 January: woot, they fixed it!

Comments

[y-pestis.livejournal.com]

Do you think this is like when your parents call you by your sibling's name? I've never been sure whether they were suffering from early Alzheimers or some sort of stemming-related brainfart...

[aristopheles.livejournal.com]

It's probably similar. I think you and I were probably a lot nicer about it than "Not Him" (scroll down aways) from last week's Prudence.

[y-pestis.livejournal.com]

Haa! Love it! Particularly the "one chink in your perfection" bit. I remember commenting to the parents that if they wanted not to mix us up, they might have considered picking names that didn't have the same first three letters. Then again, I said I'd never make the mistake of naming a child with such a long polysyllabic name, and I ended up with Benjamin... and I said I'd go to college to do something USEFUL, and ended up in Linguistics and Medieval History... irony's a b*tch, ain't it?