From her site: The soul-fixer-in-chief is here to dry your tears By Michelle Malkin • March 31, 2009 12:44 AM Reuters is running a story on the Obama administration’s new federally subsidized counseling services/referrals for those suffering from depression related to the economy. As usual, the government’s prescription for pain is…more government. The economic psychology guide was developed with help from the … Read More
Why Many People Can’t Take Congress Seriously
Exhibit A. This is Representative John Shimkus, Republican from Illinois. He serves on the U.S. House Subcommittee on Energy and Environment, a body which considers, among other things, global warming and climate change. Below is a clip of Representative Shimkus speaking on March 25 in the Energy and Environment Subcommittee. He is expressing his view that global warming is not … Read More
The New “Lost” Theme Song
Retro-80's version — kind of a MacGyver, T.J. Hooker, The Greatest American Hero vibe:
Oliver Twisted
Big Hollywood's S.T. Karnick: The latest PBS adaptation of Charles Dickens’s classic novel Oliver Twist demonstrates the urgent need for reform of the taxpayer-supported broadcasting service–or an end to taxpayer funding for it. Among PBS's crimes, according to Karnick? Casting a black woman as Nancy: Clearly the producers are imposing an ideal of a colorblind society on a story where … Read More
About That Alien Invasion
That strange light and boom that appeared over North Carolina (including one observation in High Point), Virginia, and Maryland? The one that I blogged about yesterday? It was the Russkies, not aliens: The mysterious boom and flash of light seen over parts of Virginia Sunday night was not a meteor, but actually exploding space junk from the second stage of … Read More
NC Nursing Home Shooting And Other Mass Killings
Somehow, this possible motive doesn't make the killings any less senseless. Speaking of senseless killing, I'm not looking forward to next month. On April 19, 1993, following a 51-day standoff, federal agents raided the Branch Davidian compound near Waco, Texas. A fire, later determined to have been set by the Davidians, destroyed the compound and killed 57 of its residents. On … Read More
Unsportmanlike Tweeting?
This Twitter phenomenon is getting out-of-hand and just plain silly: The National Basketball Association has fined Dallas Mavericks' owner Mark Cuban $25,000 for unsportsmanlike Twittering for his online comment about referees, The Dallas Morning News reports. After Friday's game with the Nuggets, Cuban used the interactive site to question why a technical foul wasn't called on a Nugget player for … Read More
President Bartlet, Toby Ziegler, and Josh Lymon To Go To Capital Hill Tomorrow
Yes, they are fictional, but they're still doing good work: If there was ever any doubt that fictional President Jed Bartlet's administration was pro-labor, the answer is now clear. Actors Martin Sheen, Bradley Whitford, and Richard Schiff — all of the fictional NBC presidential drama "The West Wing — will appear at an event in Congress on Tuesday seeking to bolster … Read More
If Atheists Ruled The World
All text taken directly from online Christian fundamentalist forums: From fstdt.com (Fundies Say The Darnedest Things)
Redoubt
The Anchorage Daily has a nice photo set of the volcanic eruptions last week of Mt. Redoubt. The volcano's continued eruptions have resulted in a whole new round of criticism of Governor Bobby Jindal: Thanks to "something called volcano monitoring," to use the denigrating language of Louisiana Gov. Bobby Jindal, passenger jets did not fly into ash clouds … Read More
MySpace Is Now Half The Size Of Facebook
Poor Rupert Murdoch: MySpace had 124 million monthly unique visitors last month, a decline of 2%, according to the marketing research company comScore. Facebook, by contrast, racked up 276 million unique visitors, an increase of 16.6%. Michael Arrington, co-editor of the influential industry blog TechCrunch, posted: "What was a bad situation in November 2008 is starting to turn outright ugly … Read More
The Alien Invasion Began Last Night
There were strange lights and "booms" from the sky last night, observed from North Carolina to Maryland: Robert in Sunbury, NC: At 9:38 PM, I watched a meteor cross over Sunbury, NC. It was traveling from the West towards the East. My wife and our friend also saw this event. Very exciting!!! Diana in Virginia Beach: At around 9:45 pm … Read More
But It Works So Well For Jack Bauer
Right wingnuts must be unhappy to read this: When CIA officials subjected their first high-value captive, Abu Zubaida, to waterboarding and other harsh interrogation methods, they were convinced that they had in their custody an al-Qaeda leader who knew details of operations yet to be unleashed, and they were facing increasing pressure from the White House to get those secrets … Read More
My Antipode
If I were to dig a hole straight down to the center of the Earth, I would come out in the Indian Ocean, several thousand miles west of Perth, Australia. Good to know….