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.