To all of you progressives of BMG, I wish you an evening of very happy returns that come in early and decisively. I wish you an evening of excitement and exhilaration. I wish for the Stewart-Colbert election special to be hilarious. I wish … [Read more...]
Ruminations on the Undecideds
An interesting rumination on undecided voters from humorist David Sedaris, courtesy of the New Yorker online. … [Read more...]
Yikes.
Yikes. Here's a story about grain shipments being held up on the dock because buyers are unable to obtain letters of credit satisfactory to the sellers. In other words, business is stopping. As business stops, people lose jobs. … [Read more...]
The Sino Soviet Rift Lives On; Thanks Dick!
The Shanghai Cooperation Organization waqs founded in 2001 as a sort of post-cold war successor to the Warsaw Pact as a security "club" of non-NATO nations. It hasn't really ever done anything, but there exists the implicit threat … [Read more...]
Unfair Guilt by Association
Anyway, first up, why he would have been worse than Bush: In short, Rudy never cared for legal restraints when it came to doing the thing that he thought right. Didn't matter if it was bullying the city council, the borough … [Read more...]
Thanks for the seatbelts, now please go away
Surprised to note the lack of posting herein on Nader's accusation that Senator Obama is "acting white" and is, to his distinguishing taste, no different from the guys who were no different from Bush. Evidently he remains an unreasonable … [Read more...]
Questioning the practicality of CFLs
We have a few of these in our house. I keep them for green reasons, but don't particularly like them. As has been pointed out elsewhere, the color temperature of the bulbs you can actually buy at the store is poor, tending to be … [Read more...]
Best Headline Ever
The best headline ever can be found here. I can't give more information without ruining it. … [Read more...]
Heather has Two Biological Mommies
Item: Scientists create embryo with three biological parents. Where are you John Howard, and why have you abandoned us to this dystopian future? … [Read more...]
Most successful presidential candidate of 2007
Illegal immigration wasn't even an issue in 2000 or 2004. Now, it is becoming the issue for Romney and Giuliani to fight over. McCain's "comprehensive" proposal is one of the factors that will sink him on Super Tuesday. On the … [Read more...]