Jon Stewart's team does a great job of editing George W. Bush speeches from five years ago and from recent days. It does seem to be the same speech. Consider this earlier post, and the opening lines from the BBC's terrific documentary: “The Power of Nightmares: The Shadows In The…
Easy Credit Nate Beeler, The Washington Examiner Reprinted with Permission by Cagle Cartoons
Thanks, President Bush, for taking care of the problem! Now all let's get back to our wasteful, ignorant, self-indulgent American lives! Let's add another new big screen TV to the credit card! What else is a reader of the St. Louis Post-Dispatch supposed to think when scanning this headline: "Stock…
At a Salon.com article entitled "The corporate financiers are wrong," Joe Conason says the obvious about "free market" fanatics because it is necessary to say the obvious about "free market" fanatics, given that they've been so successful at promulgating their drivel. What is the obvious thing we now need to…
The following is a quote lifted from Charlie Stross's blog and is pretty much In Full. We. Are. Not. Going. To. Die. On. Wednesday. The maximum energy the particles generated by the LHC (7TeV) get up to is many orders of magnitude below the maximum energy of cosmic rays that…