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FWIW, I totally lose in the category of Google searching for just "Jason". Mr. J. Kottke (an "A-list" weblogger, the sort who inevitably gets interviewed when a newspaper writes about weblogs) easily gets the pole position, and then it's at least 12 pages of other Jasons that aren't me. The slasher movie "Jason X" gets up there twice, even. Bah.

Ruh-roh.

Stories covering the grumbling over nonexistent WMD have held an above-the-fold place in Google News for at least a couple of days now. Assuming that the positional priortity that the Googlebots give to a news item is a fairly accurate representation of that item's current worldwide memetic strength, I have to think: Interesting, interesting.

These stories specifically deal with a statement GWB made in January's SOTU, pointing at intelligence that Iraq had attempted to buy nuke materials from certain African nations. It now appears that the report, attributed to British intelligence, may have already been discredited, but the reference was allowed to remain in the speech. This seems minor in light of the more extreme argh they lied about everything accusations levied against the administration, but one gets the sense that removing a single block from the administration's Jenga-tower of invasion justification may have... interesting consequences. We'll see, won't we...