George Will Wraps Up the Year

George Will writes today in Newsweek about some of the weirder stories of 2004 and how they all magically work together. Here's how he starts the article:

In 2004 an IBM supercomputer set a world record with 36.01 trillion calculations per second. The U.S. electorate may have made its calculation the instant John Kerry, who is not a supercomputer, explained why Toy's restaurant in Canonsburg, Pa., "is my kind of place":

"You don't have to—you know, when they give you the menu, I'm always struggling: ah, what do you want?

He just gives you what he's got, right? ... whatever he's cooked up that day. And I think that's the way it ought to work, for confused people like me who can't make up our minds."