A Farewell Address—Ronald Reagan

My fellow Americans:

This is the thirty-fourth time I’ll speak to you from the Oval Office and the last. We’ve been together for eight years now, and soon it’ll be time for me to go. But before I do, I wanted to share some thoughts, some of which I’ve been saying for a long time.

I Cannot Stop Laughing . . . The Scammer Gets Scammed

I always like stories about scammers getting scammed, but this is the ultimate example. Somebody tried to steal an Apple PowerBook from somebody using the eBay escrow scam . . . well the PowerBook seller knew what was going on, so he managed to scam the scammer by sending him a P-P-P-PowerBook! (see below) instead.

Baby Liposuctions More Popular, Controversial

With the drastic increase in childhood obesity over the past decade, parents of toddlers and infants with stubborn baby fat are increasingly turning to a controversial medical procedure called baby liposuction. In 2003, the number of baby liposuctions performed in the United States had increased to 1,045—an increase of more than 700 percent from 2002. But despite the procedure’s growing popularity, some pediatricians call it unneccesary and are concerned about its long term consequences.

Bush Outlines Iraq Plan

Speaking at the U.S. Army War College in Carlisle Barracks, Pennsylvania, President George W. Bush this evening outlined five steps to Iraqi sovereignty and Iraq’s free future.

According to Bush, the first step is the official transfer of authority to a sovereign Iraqi government on June 30. This will be followed by establishment of security, rebuilding infrastructure, encouraging international support, and finally moving toward national elections and establishment of permanent government in Iraq.

Scott Bradford is a writer and technologist who has been putting his opinions online since 1995. He believes in three inviolable human rights: life, liberty, and property. He is a Catholic Christian who worships the trinitarian God described in the Nicene Creed. Scott is a husband, nerd, pet lover, and AMC/Jeep enthusiast with a B.S. degree in public administration from George Mason University.