Gozales is a lying sack o' shit

Maybe I'm racist? and virulently anti-Bush? ie, I do not treat each event independent of prior judgment. But I find that I am literally disgusted with Gonzales, and even his appearence offends me: he looks like a weakling ass kisser.
Ashcroft refused to do his bidding. He escalated and was shot down. That one right there should have cost him his job, except, well, he's Bush's whore.

Floods Strike Britain; Thames Rising - washingtonpost.com

Floods Strike Britain; Thames Rising - washingtonpost.com: "TEWKESBURY, England -- Emergency workers rescued hundreds of trapped people Monday as water swallowed swaths of central England in the worst flooding to hit the country for 60 years"
OK. But 60 years? That means 60 years ago it was just as bad. I guess I'm not impressed.
Of course, 60 years ago, the city was far far less modern. Maybe that ought to be factored in to create some kind of "discomfort index"? Maybe that would better represent the severity.

Instapundit.com -

lunacy: Gore is criticized for taking airplanes! I suppose he should strip to animal furs and walk from place to place, shunning things like electricity.
Yes. As if anything would please a so called conservative.

Neuroeconomics | Money isn't everything

differently rational.... brilliant.
Economists often refer to this sort of behaviour as irrational. In fact, it is not. It is simply, as it were, differently rational.

libby

this country disagrees on some very fundamental issues: the law.
some call the libby prosecution and sentencing justice at long last. others call it a farce. i was going to say that that isn't the usual loonies talking, but... on second thought, usual or not, they are all loonies and thus are we and thus am i: party to a bunch of loonies call the US.
putin, that killer, could be right about the US and the 3rd reich having similarities.