The Bush administration is from an alternate reality. This would explain a lot.

Lee Iacocca goes off on George Bush and several other things. Link via gramina.

Time was, a president would want us to make some sacrifices for a war.

Possible cancer cure?!

Comedian Rita Rudner once said, "Advice from all men to all women: if you don't know what you're doing, for God's sake don't do it harder."

Bush says that opponents of his plan for Iraq (do it harder) have not offered alternatives. He's lying.

ozarque posts about her concern that scientific factoids are often treated like parables rather than like testable claims: "As long as it's sort of like an Aesop's Fable or a bible story, it doesn't matter whether a science account is actually true". Classic example: the number of words Eskimos have for snow. Recently revived example: the claim that ( Read more... )

Anti-Bush rally Oct. 5th--The World Can't Wait

Thanks for heads-up to samvimes.

On truth and history. Excellent read, please read the whole thing. Link via gramina.

Fighting the war in Iraq, we've abandoned and lost the one in Afghanistan.

If he gets stuck, use the cursor to move him around like a puppet. Everyone else does!

http://www.planetdan.net/pics/misc/georgie.htm

IRS cuts are eliminating almost half of the staff that audit the finances of the wealthiest Americans, a job that they have previously declared was being done inadequately due to staff shortages.