Spoken Like a True Bushman

Prof. Eugene (Ahab) Volokh's incessant quest to get Slate to drop their Bushism of the Day segment is getting rather annoying. Posting about it once or twice, or arguing how such things really don't do much to undo rife partisan divides are one thing, but to go to extremes to remove humor from a line is, well, not that different than what Slate is doing. That is, if Volokh's goal is to not have partisan childish namecalling, he's really not helping with his own childish remarks about why something should not be a Bushism. And so to do my fair share, every time that Volokh criticises a Bushism, I will post here why I find the statement rather humorous. Let's begin with today's.

"We need to apply 21^st-century information technology to the health care field. We need to have our medical records put on the I.T."—Collinsville, Ill., Jan. 5, 2005

Two layers of humor. (1) How can you apply IT while putting something on IT? You can't. This is the same as saying "We need to apply antique tables to the White House by putting the White House lamps on them." Hmm...sounds funny to me. Slate 1, Volokh 0. (2) You can't put ANYTHING on information technology since it doesn't physically exist to HOLD anything. You can put things on the internet, on computers, on networks...these all physically hold electronic data. IT? No. Sorry, Professor, even your own skewed definition doesn't really change the fact that our President doesn't even grasp the very basics of technology. Slate 2, Volokh 0. And this is just day 1. Keep the Bushisms rollin'.