Is this thing on?

Former Tennessee Senator (and, likely, former doctor) Bill Frist recently took a look at this blog’s server and declared, “There just seems to be insufficient information to conclude that this blog server is in a persistent vegetative state. It certainly seems to respond to visual stimuli.”

Which means you’ll never read this. But anyway.

Great news for President Bush: In a poll conducted by George Mason University’s National News Network, two historians declared his presidency a success.

On the other hand, 107 deemed it a failure. Chin up, pal: Can’t please anyone everyone. And cheer up: A whopping 39% said Bush wasn’t the Worst President Ever. Which really means that that James Buchanan is a total screw-up, since he couldn’t even hold on to that title.

One of the President’s champions wrote: “No individual president can compare to the second Bush.”

Oh, but then he added: “Glib, contemptuous, ignorant, incurious, a dupe of anyone who humors his deluded belief in his heroic self, he has bankrupted the country with his disastrous war and his tax breaks for the rich, trampled on the Bill of Rights, appointed foxes in every henhouse, compounded the terrorist threat, turned a blind eye to torture and corruption and a looming ecological disaster, and squandered the rest of the world’s goodwill. In short, no other president’s faults have had so deleterious an effect on not only the country but the world at large.”

On the plus side, he really helped “The Daily Show with Jon Stewart” and “The Colbert Report” to rock.

Hey, it was this or writing about CBS’s summer reality series, and those are really depressing.