Oh, what tangled webs we weave. I have two links for you regarding the mess in the middle east.
One, Jon Stewart’s solution. Two, Scott Adam’s take.

The girls’ favorite new toys are their water pistols. Their hands are finally big enough to hold them, and lately their favorite thing to do with them is squirt water in their mouths. I must say, it’s a tad disconcerting to see two little girls walking around with guns in their mouths. It’s really kind [...]

I saw this today while grabbing some bread at Trader Joe’s. At first I was mystified and amused; there were no other messages on the car for context, so it took me a little while to figure out what this meant. Then this evening it hit me: the Howard Dean thing.
And then I thought, [...]

I really hope this passes this week.
Update: sighhhh…no, of course not. We can’t even manage to pass bonds to keep our pathetic libraries running. LAME, people–very lame.

From Satan’s Laundromat. Funny how nobody seems to be asking this question anymore.
I’d like to request an MT feature — autosave. This is, like, the tenth time I’ve had a slip of the fingers and accidentially hit the combo for closing Firefox, losing everything I’d written for an entry. This is particularly maddening since I [...]

Saddam was a good guy when Reagan armed him, a bad guy when Bush’s daddy made war on him, a good guy when Cheney did business with him and a bad guy when Bush needed a “we can’t find Bin Laden” diversion.
Trade with Cuba is wrong because the country is communist, but trade with China [...]