Kook of the Year!

There’s a wonderful story on Slashdot about a crackpot who wrote a Wikipedia page about himself, only to have it, er, rendered more objective by other contributors. This then drove him wild, with predictable results. The current version of the page seems admirable to me, but it’s had to be locked to prevent further vandalism. Opponents of Wikipedia will doubtless try to use this story as evidence that an open project like this cannot work. To me, it proves the opposite.

Caligula’s horse — contd.

“The story of Mr. Kerik’s nomination is one of how a normally careful White House faltered because of Mr. Bush’s personal enthusiasm for Mr. Kerik, a desire by the administration to quickly fill a critical national security job and an apparent lack of candor from Mr. Kerik himself.” [ New York Times .]

I like that bit about “a normally careful White House”. That would have been in, let me see…, Harry Truman’s time?