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Wired Magazine is a funny publication. It is particularly entertaining to compare the total number of mentions of the names “george bush” (57) and “al gore” (307) in the magazine to date[1].

Upon consideration, this situation is easy to understand. It isn’t that Wired has fought to keep the flickering candle of democracy alight after Florida in 2000, a cause embraced by few aside from Michael Moore. It’s that George W. Bush has never used the word “Internet” in a State of the Union speech. Not once.

Al Gore, on the other hand, has found his true calling: using the power of technology to save the world.

[1] A note that makes this observation only slightly less funny: if the search includes all of the common variations on Bush Jr’s name (george bush, george w bush, president bush) and one then discards mentions of his father, there are something like 150 hits for Bush. Still a 2:1 ratio in Gore’s favour.