Sunday, July 31, 2011

Last Call

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There's a tentative deal on the table as of tonight . After an intense day of direct and shuttle negotiations, and after a tentative ...

Getting Randy About The Debt Ceiling

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Arguably the least useful single legislator in this entire debt ceiling mess is Kentucky's own Sen. Rand Paul, who has basically been no...

Arab Spring Becomes Slaughter Summer

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Meanwhile, while we're all enraptured by this debt nonsense, Syria's government is sending tanks to quell its citizens and "sco...

Surprise!

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A plane breaks in half and everyone survives, all 163 of them.  Check this out: GEORGETOWN, Guyana (AP) — Flight 523 from New York had ...

Today's WTH Is Brought To You By The Number Eight

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A  drunk Mississippi man reportedly let his 8-year-old son drive on a Louisiana highway, reported the Associated Press.     Louisiana stat...

Miss Scarlett, In The Conservatory, WIth The Box Of Wine

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Because Jennifer Rubin hasn't been hacktastic enough on the debt ceiling fight for the Washington Post, because Peggy Noonan hasn't...

It's All The Horn Section

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Black market rhino horns are going for so much in Europe and Asia right now that thieves are resorting to brazen daytime robberies of museum...
Saturday, July 30, 2011

Last Call

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It's down to triggers on the debt ceiling impasse. Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid (D-NV) isn't saying why both sides aren...

A Rare Chance

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Thanks to the hard work of some creative scientists, you can now go on an accurate 3-D tour of the Great Pyramid of Khufu .  This gives teac...

Land Of The Rising Core Temperature, Part 36

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As if northeastern Japan needed any more disaster-related problems right now, the country is facing brutal summer rains and deadly flooding ...

No Dealing On The Debt Ceiling, Part 47

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News is that 43 GOP Senators have vowed to block the Reid debt ceiling amendment in the Senate early Sunday morning, meaning there's bas...

Second Verse, Little Bit Louder And A Little Bit Worse

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When I created the Privacy Stupidity tag, I expected it to be specific, not not necessarily a regular.  Right now this will make 34, which i...

Grudging Respect For Fanatics Is Still Idiocy, Taylor

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I understand most people have written off Taylor Marsh since her PUMA days in 2007-2008, but at this point she's finally fully crossed o...

The Fourteenth Option, Part 3

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Lawrence O'Donnell and UCLA law prof. Jon Zasloff discuss what President Obama can and cannot do with the 14th amendment. The most i...

StupidiNews, Weekend Edition!

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Tropical Storm Don has landed along the south Texas coast bringing needed rain but not much in the way of damaging winds. A federal judge ...