[Yeah, I haven't written here in a while. Sorry.]10 years (and a few hours) ago Georgie started the invasion of Iraq. One could say he wasn't content to pass out large bags of money to wealthy people and decided to burn even more on a bonfire in the Middle East for reasons that were, at best, specious. Certainly there was no clear and present ( Read more... )

One year ago today, President Obama pledged that he would close the detention camp at Guantánamo Bay, opened just over eight years ago. There are many reasons that hasn't been completed yet (some arguably reasonable; others not so much) but even more important than the symbolism is a commitment to return to the rule of law and work to erase the ( Read more... )

Supporters of Georgie's Invasion always said they would be erecting statues in his honor. Well, not quite, they chose to memorialize this moment, first.

Monument to Bush shoe-throwing shines at Iraqi orphanageA huge sculpture of the footwear hurled at President Bush in December during a trip to Iraq has been unveiled in a ceremony at the Tikrit ( Read more... )

shadowravyn--and other zombiephobes--they're thinking of you...Transportation officials in Texas are scrambling to prevent hackers from changing messages on digital road signs after one sign in Austin was altered to read, "Zombies Ahead ( Read more... )

Things are running late, but who cares. The cheers for the man of the hour are awesome ( Read more... )

The President-Elect is arriving. There's this funny looking guy next to him but the cheers are for Obama. The crowd is immense. It's really cold but, fortunately, it looks like everyone is bundled up appropriately. (The Chief Justice has just walked out without a hat and looking smug. He's probably got long underwear on.)

I dropped citabria off at the ( Read more... )

Oh, yeah, then there's the Inaguration, tooNever in the annals of the nation have so many porta-potties gathered for so much common good. Or rather, common need. By Tuesday's presidential inauguration, a nearly unbroken Great Wall of Privies will have formed between Capitol Hill and the Lincoln Memorial.

Worker dies in Black Friday store rushVALLEY STREAM (WABC) -- A Wal-Mart employee died and four others were hurt in the Black Friday rush to get into the Valley Stream store this morning ( Read more... )

Well, with OH and PA being called for Sen. Obama, it's hard to see how Sen. McCain pulls out without, like, Dr. Horrible managing to incinerate California. (Just checked his blog--he's not planning anything like that.) IA and NM have flipped and FL remains to be called. It's not going to be pretty ( Read more... )

Palin pre-empts state report, clears self in probe