Ironolicious
Rush Limbaugh was arrested today on perscription drug charges. I guess his dreams of rounding up & punishing U.S. drug offenders are coming true. Good for you, Rush!
International community relations
Everything I Know I Learned From The Bush Administration There is such a thing as the International Community. And in that comminity, the U.S. is getting a reputation for bullying and taking lunch money. I wonder why?
Presidential Meyers-Briggs?
Some time ago a political scientist named James Dave Barber studied characteristics of past presidents and came up with a handy guage for future presidents (if you believe in that sort of thing). He found that presidents were more or less easily divisible between active and passive, and between having positive or negative feelings about [...]
Save the Internet!
I believe it … “Congress is now pushing a law that would end the free and open Internet as we know it. Internet providers like AT&T and Verizon are lobbying Congress hard to gut Network Neutrality, the Internet’s First Amendment. Net Neutrality prevents AT&T from choosing which websites open most easily for you based on [...]
Are you seated?
Tags I considered for this link: “The WAAY of the MAASTEERRR” “The Banana: The Atheists’ Nightmare” “Great Holy Christ on a Bike…” “How to wish you had those thirty miknutes back” “I shouted back at the monitor” “I’ve got an absolute statement for ya!” “Anybody seen Kirk Cameron lately?”
What’s true today will be true tomorrow
There is also an artificial aristocracy founded on wealth and birth, without either virtue or talents… The artificial aristocracy is a mischievous ingredient in government, and provisions should be made to prevent its ascendancy. -Thomas Jefferson
Take once with salt
I was baffled, amused, and entertained by this long and unusual account of the quirks and skeletons of White House officials & staff by a purported Washington insider. From Daily Kos. You can tell who the closet freaks are by who does and does not do personal web surfing. Condi is as clean as Gandhi’s [...]
Postal Experiments and massaging the blogosphere
I don’t know why, but I love reading about folks who mess with the postal service. A site called Direct Creative has a fun article on the things they were able to get the Post Office to deliver in spite of postal regulations. Apparantly, the “agents” involved were beset at every turn by courteous professionalism, [...]
Crude vs Refined: What’s up with oil?
Why gas prices are rising, posted some time today. But wait, there’s more! Check out this article on exactly that issue posted mid-last week, suggesting exactly the opposite. Who to believe?
Iran
Dear Washington, Please and pretty please, prove us wrong. Because so far things look bad.
I WANT YOU (to keep your hands off the kids)
The American Jerk: Department of Homeland Security Qualifications Self-Test