What are they thinking? Seriously, go read this post by Nitpicker. Make sure to read to the end. AB P.S. Nitpicker didn’t quote this amusing part from the original Washington Post story Our personal favorite is a shot of the president looking out from the official limo in Beijing. The ID placard, done at the […]

What’s the Difference… …between Texas Republicans and monkeys? Click here to find out. AB

Syria-ously The previous post does not mean that Syria is not a problematic nation–it is. But it always has been, and primarily for Israel, not the U.S. directly. And I believe Syria and the entire world know who wins if war breaks out between Israel and Syria, which tends to keep Syria somewhat in check. […]

Quick! Look Over There! Evildoers and Evildoings in Syria!(*) AB (*) $87 billion? Quagmire? Unemployment? Deficit? Forget about those issues, we’ve go evildoers in Syria.

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Texas Special Session Number Three–Now with Democrats! On day one, Democrats had their mike cut, got “quick-gavelled”, sang “Nobody Knows the Trouble I’ve Seen,” and one was warned that her car would be towed if it remained parked at the Capitol (Democrats lose parking and other privileges until they pay the $57,000 fines, each, that […]

Krugman Interview Calpundit interviewed Paul Krugman, who was on tour promoting his book over the weekend. The entire transcript is here; it appears they talked for quite a while. In case you were wondering but you don’t have time to read the whole thing, here’s the big question and answer: KEVIN: If you were king […]

The Civil Service Laws Republicans often deride the Civil Service Laws as creating a giant union of inefficient government employees, and in a very small way, they are right. It is in fact hard, though not impossible, to fire protected government workers, and that can lead to instances of startling incompetence. But that factor is […]

Electronic Voting This CNN story, Gaffe casts doubts on electronic voting, is a bit dated but important. In a nutshell, Diebold Election Systems Inc. is the leading vendor of electronic voting machines, particularly touch-screen voting machines. Diebold’s machines have already been hacked (not in an actual election) and, as CNN reports, Diebold recently posted the […]

Huh? Dick Cheney on Sunday (from the Washington Post): “If we’re successful in Iraq . . . then we will have struck a major blow right at the heart of the base, if you will, the geographic base of the terrorists who had us under assault now for many years, but most especially on 9/11,” […]