After hearing about Larry Craig's incidents in the Men's restroom, I started to wonder if 'having a wide stance' was a bit like saddling up next to a guy in a perfectly empty restroom. All guys know the guidelines, but is this a new one that no one told me about ( Read more... )

Admittedly, I'm a bit fascinated by Warren Buffet. I know Rogier is and there are good reasons ( Read more... )

In many ways, the government complaining about the financial crisis is like Vegas complaining that they got scammed by MIT students counting cards ( Read more... )

According to the Economist's worldwide map of states, the only country leaning towards McCain in the western hemisphere is Cuba ( Read more... )

Recently, our debt exceeded $10 trillion. To which one might wonder, can we afford the minimum payment? You can give a lot of crap to people who take out too much credit card debt, but the US government has taken out $80,000 in MY name, without my permission, and I am disinclined to pay for services rendered ( Read more... )

>Fw: According to The Book of Revelations ( Read more... )

I don't see how I missed this in 2006, but McCain actually voted for the "Military Commisions Act" (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Military_Commissions_Act), which both protected past users of torture and raised the bar on all future abuses to torture prosecution, ( Read more... )

Last night, my cousin forwarded me the 'is Obama the antichrist' email(http://www.snopes.com/politics/obama/antichrist.asp), but with additional racism at the beginning. Normally, this would be an instant delete, but my cousin sent it to me and like 80 of my other ( Read more... )

After realizing he is a virtual clone of George W. on most issues, and realizing that Dubbya's approval ratings are at 22%, McCain has thrown up the Chewbacca Defense in the form of Sarah Palin ( Read more... )

Too funny to miss...

On the $700b bailout estimate:
“It’s not based on any particular data point,” a Treasury spokeswoman told Forbes.com Tuesday. “We just wanted to choose a really large number.”

It gets funnier(and sadder) every time I read it. It would be funnier if it wasn't my money.

Also on the $700b bailout:
"But ultimately, what the ( Read more... )