It was the cute kids that got me.* It just never occurred to me that a "family" website like the Gidcumb's, with a Bible quote (Gen 2:1) right there on the home page, would be part of a disinformation ploy to plant fake photos of Karl Rove on the Internet. Then, when the Gidcumb printed a White House photo of himself with Bush**, I thought the case was closed, and the Rove photo couldn't have been faked. I mean, Bush's handlers wouldn't want him photographed right next to disinformation artists. Right?

Of course, the photo of Rove was faked.

I got p0wned by the VRWC.

And it doesn't feel good. But I'm not alone: Bush--with a timely assist from Colin Powell at the UN--p0wned the entire country on Iraqi WMDs. And apparently the country feels as good about being p0wned as I do, which is why Bush's approval ratings are in the 30s, and the Democrats were elected to provide the authoritarians in the White House with some oversight and checks and balances. Read more…