© Steve Sack We never learn.
This isn’t recent news, but it is so hilarious that I just had to write about it. A friend of mine really wants to buy a Volkswagen camper van. The only problem was that VW stopped selling them in the US in 2003, despite the fact that that they have remained so popular that a […]
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© Dan Wasserman When will we wake up? We directly subsidize things that cause us irreparable harm. We spend trillions of dollars killing people so that we can fill up our bloated SUVs. We must have a tin (Sn) ear.
© Tom Tomorrow Great logo for the front of his suit, too!
One of the funniest Jon Stewart bits in a long time, while being simultaneously sad.
I’ve been watching this story for a while now, and it just keeps getting weirder and weirder. I’m not really sure what to make of it. Of course it comes from South Carolina, the state that pretty much invented weirdness in politics — from the infamous smear campaign against McCain in 2000, to introducing the […]
[I’m reposting this from Bullseye Rooster, in honor of Helen Thomas. © Fred Wickham] Nearly eighty years after displacement from their historic early 20th century homeland, Israelites are returning to Europe. From the air, impossibly long lines of Priuses, motorbikes, and tour-buses can be seen carrying the Jews through the desert into Syria. From there, […]
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Jon Stewart takes Obama to task:
I know that people were offended by the comments that Helen Thomas made about Israel, but even the Jewish side of me thinks they weren’t that bad. And she did apologize. So to lose her job over it? Why Helen Thomas, and not Rush Limbaugh? © Glenn McCoy Personally, I like the idea of moving […]
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The Washington Post has an interesting comment about an usual approach to help solve the massive oil spill in the gulf, which actually worked! Obama has also called in some of the many scientists on the federal payroll, led by Energy Secretary Steven Chu, a Nobel Prize-winning physicist. Chu at one point pushed the unusual […]
I don’t know if this is ironic or just novel, but former Illinois governor Rod Blagojevich is using Twitter to tweet during his federal corruption trial. You too can follow along with governorrod! Too bad the prosecution isn’t also tweeting their case, so we can have a full micro-blogging court of public opinion. His first […]
Progressives are trying to unseat conservative Democrat Blanche Lincoln in the primary runoff in Arkansas (Lincoln was one of the major obstacles standing in the way of better health care reform). And indeed, a recent survey shows Bill Halter ahead of Lincoln 49 to 45%. But now all that is in doubt. Why? Garland County, […]
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Why is it that racists always start sentences with “I am not a racist, but …”? Are they really in denial or are they just lying? And they almost always follow up with some comment about being “very good friends” with some member of the minority in question. Arizona is making racist news again. This […]
Last Wednesday Diebold agreed to pay $25 million in a settlement with the Securities and Exchange Commission for fraudulently manipulating its earnings to meet financial forecasts. But the SEC is pursuing additional fraud charges against three former executives, including their chief financial officer, controller and finance chief, and the director of corporate accounting. Some of […]
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© Ted Rall What is it with the current rash of politicians who are overstating their military careers? And did you notice that Fox News was all over Richard Blumenthal’s gaffe about his military service, but hardly gave any coverage at all to the similar gaffe from Mark Kirk (Blumenthal is a Dem, but Kirk […]
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