For those of you not willing to read FP, the Economist, or plow through the last few months of the WSJ, go ahead and read this NY Times article: one and half pages of why we are fucked and how we got fucked. What kills me about it is that I was saying some of the same shit five or more years ago while sitting on my friend's back porch. I was ( Read more... )

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 http://youdecide08.foxnews.com/2008/02/21/mccain-lashes-out-against-nyt-story-on-relationship-with-lobbyist/

Three simple word my man.

http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2008/02/14/AR2008021403105.html?hpid=opinionsbox1 
http://www.politico.com/blogs/bensmith/0208/McCain_vs_Obama_a_platitude.html

GOP Message: Beware of optimism. Seriously GOP, I know that you have been building what the College Young Republicans have called their "dossier against Hillary Roddam ( Read more... )

I just bought a cancer kid a Gund Teddy Bear using airline miles. It was 7500 miles. An upgrade to first class is 15000 miles. So now every time I ride first I will now have to think about the fact that I denied two cancer kids a teddy bear.

http://www.radaronline.com/exclusives/2007/11/daily-show-writers-air-their-grievances.php
Seriously though, there wasn't that much good writing before the strike.
http://www.washingtontimes.com/apps/pbcs.dll/article?AID=/20071115/NATION/111150076/1001
It seems the BIshops got on the old God Batphone and heard that if you vote for someone who's pro- ( Read more... )

 
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I picked one hell of a time to schedule a business trip.

MSNBC provides a good map of all of the fires.

http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/21436901/

See that one in the middle next to Newport Beach? That's the Santiago fire, 12 miles due east of where I am sitting.

The entire sky is blanketed with thick smoke.

But don't you go crying for me, as I am sure you ( Read more... )

Yo Mej, I think this calls for your story about the Russian cabby.
http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2007/10/17/AR2007101700802.html?hpid=topnews

 
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