So apparently George W. Bush plans to “publish a book outlining strategies for economic growth.”
No. Really.
Prospective titles for this book include
Don’t Know Much About (Economic) History, The One Percent Solution,, and Hey, If Yo…

She starts by asserting that Winter Wipeout is proof that gay people want heteros to suffer and… it actually manages to go downhill from there.
Also, watch the guy behind her. His reactions are hilarious.

Ok, so I know IOKIYAR is (and has been for ages) SOP in DC. Still, the manner in which the Village took Rosengate oh-so seriously (and turned it up TO ELEVEN) but is now suddenly backpeddling re: The Nuge’s semi-coherent call for Obama’s assassination (gosh, campaign surrogates sure do say the darndest things!*) is especially [...]

TorStar, March 20th: Schools, hospitals and popular burger restaurants such as Hero’s and Lick’s are part of a suddenly massive beef recall over fears of E. coli contamination. The G&M, today: Veterinarians and other inspectors responsible for food recalls and ensuring the safety of Canadian meat are among the hundreds of federal public servants who [...]

I resist absolutism but some things are red lines.  A woman’s right to control and ‘own’ her own body is one of them.  Add me to the chorus of voices deeply disappointed in the tone of the Prog Blog moderators during the rec…

Who would have thought? I’m out of here. Do remove my blog from the Prog Blog list, Scot. Thx. – Syndicated from http://thecylinder.wordpress.com

Who would have thought? I’m out of here. Do remove my blog from the Prog Blog list, Scot. Thx. – Syndicated from http://filasteen.wordpress.com

Linking without comment: Fern Hill, Idiot by Warren Kinsella.MASSIVE BONUS: Go read Dr Dawg.

Every time I hear about Geraldo Rivera’s comments on the Trayvon Martin shootings, I always picture him talking to the victim’s family. I picture him sitting there, an expression of Sincere Concern on his face (the one he’s practiced over years of TV “journalism”), perhaps putting a hand on one family member’s knee in a [...]

This week the Georgia State Legislature debated a bill in the House, that would make it necessary for some women to carry stillborn or dying fetuses until they ‘naturally’ go into labor. In arguing for this bill Representative Terry England…

Wow!  What is it with our world?  I mean seriously.  You don’t have to be a rocket scientist, or even a parent to see these articles of clothing are not appropriate nor do they send the right message to our kids.  And, Sears is learning the hard.
Take a look at this shirt Sears yanked from [...]

I suspect that very few of you know what ‘The Shining’ is really about. You might think you know; you might talk about themes of isolation, claustrophobia, and the darkness in the human spirit made manifest as a “haunted” hotel. But you’d be wrong. You probably aren’t aware of the hidden messages about the dangers [...]

I’m surprised it took anti-same-sex-marriage campaigners so long to ape the common tactic of SSM families to use little kids to speak to their views. Granted, it’s nowhere near as compelling for the anti-SSM crowd as it is for the pro-SSM crowd, because when kids of SSM families say that they grew up just fine [...]

Recently, the whole “Nice Guy” topic came up again, well after the initial post had become a thing of legend. Many people jumped in on the new discussion, but it always seems like the same people respond in the same way. The phrase, “Yes, they’re being jerks, but they’ve got a point…” keeps getting bandied [...]

A sixty-second remake of The Thing but with Pingu?

Hey, remember the “Internet Nice Guy” post from 2007? Well, it still gets traffic and the occasional comment, and I felt I should share this one, from “doesntmatter” (although I added some paragraph breaks to his wall of text): So funny how everbody jumps on the bandwagon an the females aplaud the author for being [...]

by matttbastard Newt teh Perfessor outdoes himself on the future of gender in an excerpt from a mid-90s lecture: Traditionally, he said, “if combat means living in a ditch, females have biological problems staying in a ditch for thirty days, because they get infections and they don’t have upper body strength.” On the other hand, [...]

We are now 8 days away from the big day HO HO HO and with this in mind brings to me a reflection on all things beautiful in this world I’ve neither done or seen for myself.  There are so many exquisite places on this planet we’ve never even seen or heard of, along with [...]