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There are few things in this world that I consider unequivocally good (okay: cheese, the First Amendment, iPods, Makers Mark, Ben Folds, late-afternoon sex, the Minnesota Timberwolves, those fancy high-tech corkscrews…). But one of them is unquestionably this site’s Comments sections.
And yes, they’re malfunctioning lately. All of your precious wit, wisdom, and […]

“I don’t know what the facts are but somebody’s certainly going to sit down with him and find out what he knows that they may not know, and make sure he knows what they know that he may not know, and that’s a good thing. I think it’s a very constructive exchange.”
- Donald Rumsfeld, today, […]

We’ll be importing 4 million flu shots from Germany.
A cynical man might compare this to the four-plus years that drug importation legislation has failed to get past the White House. Such a man, jaded and bitter, might ask what happened to the President’s concern, expressed so clearly in the debates, that nefarious […]

Washington (FA wire) - In the wake of yet another well-photographed Iraqi prisoner abuse scandal, President Bush today offered his apologies and took responsibility for the incidents.
“I’m the Commander in Chief,” he said in a press conference on the White House lawn. “The conduct of the military is therefore my responsibility. I want […]

As many of you have alerted me via email, my concession speech is still out there, replicating itself and mutating like an alien virus in a bad sci-fi movie. As Eric at Whuzzup! has pointed out, a Google search using any phrase from the speech yields hundreds of results, about half of which credit […]

- Spend more time with family. Devise system to identify them. [possible idea: Younger female = “green,” older female = “violet,” etc.]
- Merge kitchen and dining room into one “food production, consumption, and disposal” unit. Eliminate those unnecessary redundancies (tables, dinnerware, chairs, etc.).
- Earn money in the private sector. […]