The Thief
Le Voleur is French for the Thief. In 1828, during the birth and rise of the newspaper, Emile de Girardin had a novel idea on how to use the newest writing technology, the printing press. He and a friend decided to start a periodical, but since they lacked capital, the weekly was entitled Le Voleur (The Thief) and it reprinted the best articles that had appeared elsewhere during the week, saving editorial costs. (from ''The History and Power of Writing'')
Sept. 29 (Bloomberg) -- Back in the days when President
George W. Bush preferred his endless summer at the ranch to
storm chasing, few mistakes stuck to him. He was like the guy
who drove through the car wash with his top down but never got
wet.
No weapons of mass destruction in a country we're stuck in?
Well, you must understand, he really thought they were there. At
this year's White House Correspondents' Association dinner, Bush
showed a video of himself pretending to look for the weapons
under his desk.
Oh what a difference a hurricane makes. Katrina exposed
something we couldn't know before: Bush's claim that he would
keep us safer than that wishy-washy senator from squishy
Massachusetts is false. Not only are we not safer than we were
before Bush took office, we're worse off.
The Federal Emergency Management Agency, as its Katrina
response made tragically clear, is a mess. The Department of
Homeland Security, which Bush built from scratch, is mainly
known for a color chart, wasteful spending, a mixed bag of
airport screeners and a new chief who didn't know the New
Orleans Superdome was filled with starving, homeless hurricane
victims."