If nothing else, the Bush administration will go down in history as having the longest list of meatiest scandals associated with it. There is a sweet list of the largest scandals involving administration officials over at TPMmuckraker. This list doesn’t address waterboarding, the Bill of Rights, the DoJ, Blackwater or any other entity or [...]
Daniel Kurtzman of the San Francisco Chronicle has written a brilliant article that highlights some of the hilarious things that politicians have said this year. Daniel also edits the political humor page at About.com.
The year’s most laughable political antics
Daniel Kurtzman Monday, December 31, 2007
The late-night comedians may have [...]
A grant of 2.1 million pounds ($4.17 million) has been awarded to a team at the Imperial College London for the development of a new surgical tool dubbed the ‘i-Snake’. Essentially the i-Snake is a highly flexible, robotic tool which would allow for more complicated procedures to be done with what are essentially laparoscopic surgical [...]
As we draw ever closer to the New Year we are inundated by many ‘Best of’s..). Brooke and I watched our first Keith Olbermann Oddball special this week and there was the Louis Black Last Laugh 2007.
Rolling Stone – The 100 Best Songs of 2007, Popular Science – Best of What’s New ‘07, the list goes [...]
Here is a very interesting article about how the two front running Democratic hopefuls are dealing with the vile assassination of Benazir Bhutto.
Clinton, Obama Seize on Killing Reactions Illustrate Their Key Differences
By Anne E. Kornblut and Shailagh Murray Washington Post Staff Writers [...]
I haven’t really posted in the last few days, just some Internet bargain sites and a little bit of Today in History. The reason I haven’t posted is because the topics that I’ve been posting about have been making me really, really angry. And I’m pretty tired of being angry.
We all know that the current [...]
Today in 1065, Westminster Abbey was consecrated.
Today in 1612, Galileo Galilei was the first astronomer to observe the planet Neptune, although he thought it was a star.
Today in 1846, Iowa was admitted as the 29th U.S. state.
Today in 1981, Elizabeth Jordan Carr, the first American test-tube baby, is born in Norfolk, Virginia.
Celebrating Birthdays today are [...]
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A couple of weeks ago a non-news event surfaced that Karl Rove, the evil genius behind the Idiot-That-Is-Bush, was looking around for a publisher. Hoping to cash in on his perceived fame as ‘The Architect’ he was met with a distinct lack of interest by the major book publishers. In the end he was [...]
Five of the nine U.S. attorney jobs vacated during the great purge of 2006 are still open. It might appear to the untutored eye that the DoJ suffers from a job retention image issue. But the true facts are even scarier. The DoJ isn’t even bothering to look for potential candidates. Maybe they know [...]
I was reminded of this 2000 election campaign promise in a very articulate article by Tom over at OpenEducation.Net. This compelling piece explains how compounding of all of the lies and other unethical behavior on the part of not only our Commander-in-Chief but all of his political cronies and appointees, has put our teachers the [...]
Well, well, well. It looks like George might finally be coming to his senses. Much too late to save even the tiniest bit of self respect or dignity, but that is between him and God, and I don’t think God is any more impressed than I am….But I digress.
In a news conference yesterday Bush [...]
That was something my Dad always said when I was young. I always took it to mean that you can’t allow yourself to be overtaken by life’s little stumbling blocks. If you decide to be happy, you will be happy. I honestly try, day by day, to be happy and upbeat. It is a [...]
The Washington Post has a great piece on the most recent financial troubles affecting our disgraced ex-AG. It seems that his ‘Talent Agency’ is having mucho problems getting him signed up for speaking gigs. And that is severely hurting his legal defense fund.
Despite the call last month for Republicans to circle the wagons and dig [...]
The Seattle Post-Intelligencer (PI) has an editorial that calls for Congressional hearings citing a distrust of the Justice Department. I’m with the PI on this one. Read HERE.
Michael Mukasey, AG du jour, has limited the number of his employees who are allowed to discuss DoJ cases with White House staff members. We wouldn’t want a [...]
Waltham, MA isn’t known for much outside of a watch and clock company that closed in 1957. It certainly isn’t known as a home for liberals. But this excellent editorial in todays Daily News Tribune by GHS shows how little we really know about this small town.
Editorial: Mukasey’s stonewalling
The subtext for Attorney General Michael Mukasey’s [...]
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