Everybody Loves Biden
The best part about this is the pretense that Biden doesn’t have time to be interviewed about a spate of hilarious Onion articles: A spokesman for Mr. Biden, Jay Carney, said the vice president...
Daily Archive: November 10, 2010
An Early Look at the 2012 Congressional Outlook
Over at Fourth Branch, Publius crunches some numbers and determines that the combination of the election results last week and the results of the census will likely give Republicans a significant advantage in redistricting...
Fundraising Drive Day Two
Once again, I’m back with another request for donations. We’re still looking at possibly moving to a better host and other ways to speed up and generally improve the site. Both writers and readers...
What Do You Call It When…
life doesn’t just imitate satire, but skips right over it and somehow becomes a parody of a parody while simultaneously being all too serious? Because that’s what the FDA seems to be shooting for,...
The Bathtub Gin of Cannabis (and Other Substances), Now with Bath Salts
The Erowids remain the most important authors around on drug policy. Consider their musings on the state of recreational drugs today: Take “Ivory Wave” (recently renamed “Vanilla Sky”), with its shiny, corporate, mass-produced packaging....
Quote for Today
“Librarians are the worst enemies of books there are.” He smiles sardonically when he says this, an amiable old fart that the library keeps around to shelve books. With his fire-hose arms and gut...
DADT and Legislating from the White House
Image via Wikipedia Confession: At first I was sort of conflicted about Adam Serwer’s suggestion that the president repeal DADT by executive order. Obviously I recognize that the military’s policy of discriminating against its...
“Their money did not stink.”
I don’t have anything to add to the Great Sanitation Throwdown, but I have to note that basically everywhere in the USA we’ve got it pretty good whether our sanitation is handled by authoritarian...
