Making Light :: Counting down :: comments http://nielsenhayden.com/makinglight/archives/002523.html#comments Language, fraud, folly, truth, history, and knitting. Et cetera. en Fri, 04 Apr 2003 14:17:12 -0500 http://www.sixapart.com/movabletype/?v=4.261 Counting down The Defense Department's very own online biography of Donald Rumsfeld says:Secretary Rumsfeld is responsible for directing the actions of the... The Defense Department's very own online biography of Donald Rumsfeld says:Secretary Rumsfeld is responsible for directing the actions of the... http://nielsenhayden.com/makinglight/archives/002523.html Counting down -- comment #1 from Lis Carey comment from Lis Carey on 2.Apr.03 They're slow to notice these, or perhaps merely slow to realize other people will notice them and make connections, but by Monday, for sure, it will never have been there.

]]> <p>Posted April 2, 2003 6:33 AM by Lis Carey</p> http://nielsenhayden.com/makinglight/archives/002523.html#18355 http://nielsenhayden.com/makinglight/archives/002523.html#18355 Wed, 02 Apr 2003 06:33:38 -0500 Counting down -- comment #2 from Steven desJardins comment from Steven desJardins on 2.Apr.03 Off topic, but your blogroll link to the Agonist has three (consecutive) r's in "mirror".

]]> <p>Posted April 2, 2003 3:00 PM by Steven desJardins</p> http://nielsenhayden.com/makinglight/archives/002523.html#18385 http://nielsenhayden.com/makinglight/archives/002523.html#18385 Wed, 02 Apr 2003 15:00:19 -0500 Counting down -- comment #3 from Teresa Nielsen Hayden comment from Teresa Nielsen Hayden on 2.Apr.03 "It's from the same root as 'miracle'."

]]> <p>Posted April 2, 2003 4:50 PM by Teresa Nielsen Hayden</p> http://nielsenhayden.com/makinglight/archives/002523.html#18400 http://nielsenhayden.com/makinglight/archives/002523.html#18400 Wed, 02 Apr 2003 16:50:23 -0500 Counting down -- comment #4 from Claude Muncey comment from Claude Muncey on 2.Apr.03 Ah but something will remain once the bio is gone -- his poetry!

Slate has a collection of direct quotes from Rumsfeld (taken from the official DoD site) and presented as poetry -- such as:

The Unknown
As we know,
There are known knowns.
There are things we know we know.
We also know
There are known unknowns.
That is to say
We know there are some things
We do not know.
But there are also unknown unknowns,
The ones we don't know
We don't know.

The Zen of Rummy!

]]> <p>Posted April 2, 2003 10:14 PM by Claude Muncey</p> http://nielsenhayden.com/makinglight/archives/002523.html#18419 http://nielsenhayden.com/makinglight/archives/002523.html#18419 Wed, 02 Apr 2003 22:14:11 -0500 Counting down -- comment #5 from CHip comment from CHip on 2.Apr.03 Poetry? Oh ... my ... god.

Who does he think he is? Leonard Nimoy?

]]> <p>Posted April 2, 2003 11:22 PM by CHip</p> http://nielsenhayden.com/makinglight/archives/002523.html#18422 http://nielsenhayden.com/makinglight/archives/002523.html#18422 Wed, 02 Apr 2003 23:22:56 -0500 Counting down -- comment #6 from David Moles comment from David Moles on 3.Apr.03 It's "found" poetry. Rummy doesn't know he's writing it.

]]> <p>Posted April 3, 2003 11:19 AM by David Moles</p> http://nielsenhayden.com/makinglight/archives/002523.html#18474 http://nielsenhayden.com/makinglight/archives/002523.html#18474 Thu, 03 Apr 2003 11:19:55 -0500 Counting down -- comment #7 from Claude Muncey comment from Claude Muncey on 3.Apr.03 Actually, I like CHip's idea -- imaging Rumsfeld with the ears photoshoped on . . .

]]> <p>Posted April 3, 2003 1:59 PM by Claude Muncey</p> http://nielsenhayden.com/makinglight/archives/002523.html#18499 http://nielsenhayden.com/makinglight/archives/002523.html#18499 Thu, 03 Apr 2003 13:59:31 -0500 Counting down -- comment #8 from Kathryn Cramer comment from Kathryn Cramer on 4.Apr.03 A "significant reorganization of the worldwide command structure" -- so that's what this war's really about!

Ah, the military unconscious.

]]> <p>Posted April 4, 2003 2:17 PM by Kathryn Cramer</p> http://nielsenhayden.com/makinglight/archives/002523.html#18555 http://nielsenhayden.com/makinglight/archives/002523.html#18555 Fri, 04 Apr 2003 14:17:12 -0500