Month: July 2008

Doogie, Vi, and Captain Tightpants. Or, if you prefer, Barney Stinson, Codex, and Caleb....

Last week, I happened to meander into my bank (I had a check to deposit) and they had a big promotion going on -- some really cool gifts for …

John Amato at Crooks and Liars posts the following snippet from a December 29, 2007 town hall meeting with John McCain in Merrimack, NH. McCain: "Now we've got the …

Well first of all apologies are in order... Not only are last week's winners late, but I completely botched the contest this weekend. By the time I realized it …

The United States has just finished transporting 550 metric tons -- that's over 1.2 MILLION pounds -- of yellowcake uranium from Iraq to Canada. The Iraqi government sold it …

It never gets mentioned much in the dramas about our founding fathers, but one of the big reasons for the American Revolution, was money. You see, the British Empire …

Last Friday, as President Bush was giving a speech to a bunch of brand-new American citizens (wow... imagine becoming an American on Independence Day, with the President himself attending …

Last week, I got considerable grief when I revealed that one of my favorite songs from childhood was David Gates' "Goodbye Girl." I think part of it was oversaturation …

Today's winner is Melvin Gonzalez. He gets the award for the following. Melvin Gonzalez, a welder, was motoring through Hialeah early Thursday morning in a van filled with with …

Well, it's been about a week since retired General0 Weasely Wesley Clark made his pronouncement that there is nothing about John McCain's military service that "qualifies" him to be …