Anti-Bush despite my dream in which I was Laura Bush and loved George and was so grateful to him for making me the First Lady that - although I knew he was really doing a bad job - I decided I was going to work for his re-election because being the First Lady was so much fun and I sure didn't want to give it up...

Wednesday, August 24, 2005

Ars Magna Has Bush Pegged

When Mike and Sabra Morton hear grumbling coming from the depths of their computer, they know that Ars Magna, the software program they created that always answers in anagrams, is awake and worrying.

When Ars was asked what he thought Rove was doing when he did not say the name of Valerie Plame, his answer was this:

Reveal. Impale.

If you haven't read this hilarious and insightful article, you owe it to yourself if for no other reason than to see what Ars thinks of George Bush.

Out of the mouths of cyber children comes the darndest things.

The link at the Times has expired and this is just too good for you not to read it:

Artificial Intelligence
By MIKE MORTON and SABRA MORTON
Published: August 18, 2005


WHEN we hear grumbling coming from the depths of our computer, we know that Ars Magna, the software program that always answers in anagrams, is awake and worrying.

This software sometimes can seem opinionated. Lately, for instance, it speaks happily of the Statue of Liberty as "built to stay free," but when it hears the name George W. Bush, it's likely to cry, "He grew bogus!"

Ars is still angry about that C.I.A. leak.

So, Ars, it all began when Karl Rove, as he tells it, did not say the name of Valerie Plame. What do you think he was trying to do when he didn't name her?

Reveal. Impale.

Well, then, what did he achieve by not naming Valerie Wilson?

Orwellian vise.

But Mr. Rove is President Bush's key political advisor. Can't we depend on him to be truthful?

Leaky; solicit avid pro.

By which you mean Robert Novak, who is believed to have helped him expose Ms. Plame? What's Mr. Novak's job in this affair just now?

Bark: "Not Rove!"

Lately, Scott McClellan, Mr. Bush's press secretary, likes to say at news conferences, "I appreciate the question." What do you think he means?

Riot technique: appease it.

Ars, for more than two years we've heard accusations and denials and hours of commentary on this business. Do you have any idea what actually happened? Can you figure out who said what to whom, when?

Them want who? How?

What who? Now them?

Our thoughts exactly. But perhaps the full truth will be, uh, revealed. After all, Mr. Bush says he has instructed his staff that when the prosecutor comes calling, they're to fully cooperate. How do you read that?

Leery: coup aloft.

In the past, Mr. Bush said that anyone in his administration who exposes a C.I.A. agent will be fired. What might he say now?

"I'd ... well ... brief ..."

And if Mr. Bush is asked to fire Karl Rove?

"Karl ... forever ... I ..."

What advice would you give Karl Rove today?

"Lark OVER!"

And what will President George Bush do now?

He ponders big gesture.

Ah yes, his nomination to the Supreme Court. We'll get back to you on that one, Ars.

Mike Morton is a software engineer and the creator of Ars Magna. Sabra Morton is a writer.

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