95% of working families?
According to the Wall Street Journal, Obama's tax break proposals are mostly credits, meaning they're refunds to people who might…
Proposition 8
Joe Coarter makes a point about Proposition 8 in California. I've been seeing the No on 8, let anyone get…
Adlai to you
Kottke points out a website with political commercials all the way back to Eisenhower. I need to figure out how…
Elizabeth Snead makes a joke and it falls flat
Elizabeth Snead at the LA Times comments on the Newsweek cover with Sarah Palin. I think she's making a joke,…
Visualizing BIblcal References
Chris Harrison has a fantastic graph, visualizing Biblical references. The bar graph that runs along the bottom represents all of…
The Big Picture – Afghanistan
Boston.com's Big Picture has some great photos of international troops in Afghanistan. In particular, the shot catching the shell leaving…
I will be a groom
I get to be a groom after all. For a little while, it looked like I would be reduced to…
The financial crisis, in a nutshell
The financial crisis, in a nutshell: Oprah Winfrey's mother says she shouldn't have to pay a nearly $156,000 debt to…
Bailout Bill Includes Other Crap
The Senate bailout bill includes all sorts of unrelated crap. I guess it makes it more likely to pass that…
Phoenix Continues
The Mars Phoenix mission gets extended. "We are literally trying to make hay as the sun shines," Barry Goldstein, Phoenix…