45 Days to Go

First off, many apologies for the tests last night (if you get sent an email regarding new posts).

I was trying to “optimize” this site using some e-tools, and things didn’t go so well. As such, I will need to rely on a purely word-of-mouth/underground/secret society/guerilla marketing campaign to complete my plan of overtaking, and eventually replacing, the Drudge Report.

Or, if someone can help me understand Blogspot’s webmaster tools, that would help too…



CORRECTION: Yesterday, in a rant against the limited American knowledge of the world outside our borders, I referred to Spain’s prime minister as the “president.” So… QED.

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A strange twist on foreign sources of crude oil, and the realization that we don’t actually track oil molecules.

Let’s not pretend racism is a thing of the past, shall we? Here is a a photo essay on a seamstress who outfits neo-Klansmen and women with their “hate couture.”

If you haven’t seen her yet, you surely will. From Air America to now her own show on MSNBC, Rachel Maddow is rocking it.

An interesting article comparing John McCain to Bob Dole. But this is becoming seriously low hanging fruit.

Okay, is this ironic, or what?

This is on the www.johnmccain.com website: “[Sarah Palin] told the Congress "thanks, but no thanks," for the "Bridge to Nowhere."”
Yes, yes it is.

In case you forgot that this guy is still in charge, you can sleep soundly again.

Wait… WHAT? CEOs receive obscene salaries that ignore reality and merely serve to re-enforce their peers’ exaggerated compensation in a cyclical maelstrom of greed? WHAT?!

Todd Palin doesn’t want to answer a subpoena in response to his wife’s gubernatorial abuses of power, because he no longer believes the Legislature's investigation is legitimate. Sure, that works for me…

You know you’re living in interesting times when phrases like “complete meltdown of our financial economy” are bandied about with fix-it price tags of $1 trillion. But do we really want to write a blank check to the current set of yahoos? Really…?