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This is the by-line that all ACC and ATT engineers, tech reps, project managers, and salespersons use at AT&T. Of course, it's a joke -- what power? AT&T depends on the Embarqs, Sprint-Nextels, Nevada Bells of the real world to do their bidding, retarded end-of-line untrained, illiterate technicians who can't google a map to find their way home.

George W. Bush is of our generation -- the Baby Boomers, the twenty-somethings of the 60's-70's. What he leaves behind, we leave behind, complicit fundamentally in his failure because our generation elected him, approved his wacky policies, and more importantly, accepted his ineptitude. He is we, the generation of weirdo anti-war demonstrators and even more weirdo war-mongers. That's what we are, this generation of post-WWII baby boomers -- a conflicted generation of highly ethical, financial scammers, and righteous born-agains.

We're armed with technology, like the profs of the sixties were armed with secretaries and assistants, but the technology isn't making our communication with our students any better than the distance created by layers of staff in former years. We're wasting precious time letting inadept users fumble around while the promise of enhanced communication, interaction, and collaboration are unfulfilled, at least between the professoriate and learning classes.

I tried to figure out whether or not to make all authenticated users in control of the site. Then I wanted to create a separate group of users -- administrators but couldn't figure out how to do that.