Holy crap, look at Barack's watch.  It looks like it weighs as much as his whole arm.  He can probably launch ICBMs from it ( Read more... )

Fun fact: inside the state department, it's apparently become popular to refer to Hillary as "Glinda", as opposed to the outgoing secretary, "the Wicked Witch of the West".

Spooky: half of all presidents since WWII are southpaws

Why the term "Islamofascist" is a misnomer ( Read more... )

Fareed Zakariah asked Colin Powell about where the Republican party is heading and what it needs to do.  One thing he said: "I think the party has to stop shouting at the world, and at the country....  Can we continue to listen to Rush Limbaugh?"

If this guy knows what he's talking about, sure enough, what we've accomplished in Iraq is basically to make it pro-Iran or even an Iranian satellite.  As I semi-predicted back in October 2002.

A look inside the causes of the current financial crisis, showing that the money lost on physical houses is just the tip of the iceberg of how Wall Street fucked itself in the subprime mortgage market.
There weren’t enough Americans with shitty credit taking out loans to satisfy investors’ appetite for the end product. The firms used Eisman’s bet ( Read more... )

The Chinese invented everything first, including Joe the Plumber.

So have the Bushies not only been corrupted by the likes of Enron and UBS and ConAgra, but even by South American drug lords?

Speaking of Norm Coleman vs. Al Franken (who are waiting for a recount to see who has won), having a cold has enabled me to do Al Franken's voiceI think I'm returning to work in the morning.  I feel considerably better than yesterday ( Read more... )