AFSCME 3357-HOF'S BLOG

The Googleteer and Harry Reid

I was sitting around the cracker barrel, jaw-jacking with the Googleteer, the Baron of Boolean himself, and we were talking about Nevada Senator Harry Reid. Until recently, I didn't Reid very highly. My only significant exposure to him was during the hearings during controversy surrounding government secrecy at the Groom Lake Air Force base, including the government's attempt to obfuscate the circumstances surrounding, and deny responsibility for, the deaths and injuries of numerous contract employees at the base. In that campaign, Reid came off like a waffle on a stick.

Recently, though, Reid has been a Senate leader in opposing the war. He publicly called the war unwinnable, and he says George W. Bush is in denial. With much machismo, I commented to the Googleteer that Reid "finally grew a pair." Momentarily puzzled, the Googleteer quickly recovered, pulled his golden keyboard from his utility belt and dashed off this search.

"Harry Reid" "grew a pair"

Result: 62 hits.

Bottom line: you can expect to hear more from Senator Reid in the near future, and he'll probably speak with a much deeper voice.