"Apple doesn’t make computers that people have to buy. They make computers that people want to buy."

Ugh.

Dougal starts a series on how he, as a WP dev, uses WordPress. Good stuff.

"McCain and Obama have sharply different health care plans, and each has made sharply worded attacks that are either false or misleading. McCain proposes a market-based system that relies on tax incentives, which one Obama ad falsely characterizes as the 'largest middle-class tax increase in history.' Obama proposes new subsidies to expand private insurance coverage and some expansion of government insurance, which McCain falsely claims 'will rob 50 million employees of their health coverage.'

"Neither candidate has offered enough specifics about his plan to allow experts to assess the cost or impact without making various assumptions. Studies agree generally, however, that Obama’s plan would cover more of the uninsured than McCain’s would.

"Here we lay out a brief explanation of both plans, what the experts are saying about them, and some of the ways each campaign is trying to fool the voters about the other."

"She claims the report 'vindicates' her. She said that the investigation found 'no unlawful or unethical activity on my part.'

"Her response is either astoundingly ignorant or downright Orwellian.

"Page 8, Finding Number One of the report says: 'I find that Governor Sarah Palin abused her power by violating Alaska Statute 39.52.110(a) of the Alaska Executive Branch Ethics Act.'

"In plain English, she did something 'unlawful.' She broke the state ethics law.

"Perhaps Gov. Palin has been too busy to actually read the Troopergate report. Perhaps she is relying on briefings from McCain campaign spinmeisters.

"That's the charitable interpretation."

"So what does this say about the possible Vice-President of the United States? Certainly not as much as her enemies would have hoped. She was only directly involved in a small bit of the pressure campaign — a meeting or two and a couple of emails. She can thank Monegan for not having her hands dirtier; it was he who told her to keep herself at 'arm's length' from any Wooten conversations.

"But even though she won't likely face any legal repercussions, the amateurism and cronyism of her brief administration hardly leaves Palin sitting pretty. Troopergate's final verdict may be even more damaging than a rebuke: her administration was, at least this regard, just as self-motivated as the Washington fat cats and lobbyists she hopes to unseat."