Dream Job

I want a job where I can work out in the middle of the day. Ride my bicycle in the country mid-morning on a weekday. Be in bed by 10 o'clock every night. Take a month-long vacation in my first year of employment, and spend about 40% of my time away from the office thereafter. (Hey, I'll even take a laptop along and call it a "working vacation!") That daily nap break sounds pretty great too. To top it off, I'll want to make $400,000 per year plus benefits. Throw in all the free shoes I could want, and this is a dream job indeed.

On a related note: In 2000 we all said we believed that Cheney et al were really in charge and GWB was just a figurehead with the right last name. In 2004 we learned that au contraire, George Jr. is a shrewd politician, a brilliant campaigner who feigns ignorance to set the bar low. But really, if that's true, what's up with this?

[T]he White House, which characterized the alert as the most serious since Sept. 11, did not interrupt Bush's bicycle ride at a suburban wildlife research center in nearby Maryland to tell him about it.

Vice President Dick Cheney who was at the White House at the time was quickly evacuated, and Defense Secretary Donald Rumsfeld was told about the incident around the time it happened, his spokesman said, and was ready to make any "necessary decisions."