What’s on the President’s iPod?

Not sure why this should be news, but it is a sick,
sorry reflection on the state of the union that we are fascinated by
this kind of drivel-driven trivia. Elisabeth Bumiller in the New York Times goes into alltogether
too much detail about what’s on Bush’s iPod. We might be marginally interested
in what was on the iPod when the Bush daughters gave it to him last July,
or what’s on their iPods, but just knowing what’s on
the presidential playlist somehow makes us want to sterilize or ritually
purify our own
model before using it again. Luckily we will only have to erase a very
few songs and artists….

Between his return on Friday from Pope John Paul
II’s funeral in Rome and his meeting today with Prime Minister Ariel
Sharon of Israel, President Bush spent an hour and a half on Saturday
on an 18-mile mountain bike ride at his Texas ranch. With him, as usual,
was his indispensable new exercise toy: an iPod music player loaded with
country and popular rock tunes aimed at getting the presidential heart
rate up to a chest-pounding 170 beats per minute.

Which brings up the inevitable question. What, exactly, is on the First
iPod?

from the New
York Times