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Wheat & Weeds – Oops, Sorry Poor Unemployed People

Oh, cash for clunkers. Oh, sigh.

When do we get to cite the commerce clause as giving us the authority to fire congress, eh? Anyone? Seems like a logical progression.

Categories: Politics

It’s rather entertaining to see a nation full of journalists live-tweeting/live-blogging/live-article-writing a book, as they read it. It’s been everywhere. The most entertaining bit, for us ‘Mercuns, is:

Telegraph Blogs – Will Heaven: Tony Blair thinks George W. Bush was a better president than Barack Obama

[I]ndeed, the only positive references to the US President [...]

Categories: Politics

A very good 10 minute video on the history of the commerce clause and how it’s the source of all our present federal governmental joy:

Curtsy: RC2.

Categories: History

I sense a certain inspiration at work in this Australian campaign ad for Bob Katter:

Compare to the similarly-hatted and always ALL CAPS DALE PETERSON:

This bodes well, my friends. GUNS HORSES HATS CROCODILES ON THE LOOSE.

Categories: Politics

WSJ – Ahnuld: Public Pensions and Our Fiscal Future Few Californians in the private sector have $1 million in savings, but that’s effectively the retirement account they guarantee to many government employees.

At the same time that government-employee costs have been climbing, the private-sector workers whose taxes pay for them have been hurting. Since 2007, [...]

Categories: Politics

Chris Young, running for mayor of Providence, recently appeared on the local FOX station for a disastrous interview. The worst part? Choose: a) Young bringing/reading notes, b) saying that he attends church for fun, or c) serenading the befuddled interviewer.

Watch the video. Or try to. Whatever. It’s pretty excruciating.

Categories: Politics

Hehehehe:

Wheat & Weeds – Now THIS Is Blatant Anti-Semitism

I love that Apple’s dictionary.app can always be trusted to translate the Yiddishisms.

Categories: Food

From @wheatweeds:

Dang. Now we have to let him put it in Manhattan. http://americandigest.org/Bomb%20Mot.jpg

If I RT that, heads would explode. Which would be great, but I’m chickening out anyway.

Categories: War and Peace

io9 – Ultraviolet light reveals how ancient Greek statues really looked

(That’s a Roman statue there, says the girl who took two years of art history classes.)

Curtsy: RC2.

Categories: Art and Literature

“I love the internet sometimes”:

Auto-Tune the News Hits the Billboard Top 100

Watch the videos. The first half of the first one if you haven’t seen it already, then the second one, then go find a dsl line and hug it.

Categories: Electronics

We’ve been watching Vicky Cristina Barcelona. It’s a good movie, generally. I’ll make no comment on the bohemian morality here. But the pacing and music and light is lovely (and apparently Woody Allen is good for a baby’s frayed nerves, too).

It’s funny though. Everyone in the film is idle. The Americans because they’re rich, staying [...]

Categories: Entertainment

I suppose this is just a consequence of the huge population in that state, but good lord, it blows New York away:

It’s like end times over there.

From The Corner: Job Creation in the States

Categories: Politics

Those new lead paint laws meant that the cost of painting our house has gone up by $2,000. Which is, worst-case scenario (original quoted price; might have been less), increasing the cost by a third.

Which means most people simply won’t bother repainting until the paint chips off and gets eaten by local children. Because, [...]

Categories: Politics

Yesterday as I was pulling into Target, Radio 1 (still have the free Sirius radio in my car) played Jay Z’s Empire State of Mind, which is a very good song, but which I didn’t need to have in my head all day (especially as I mostly just loop the Alicia Keys bits over and [...]

Categories: Entertainment

The Race Card is Maxed Out:

The Daily Show With Jon StewartMon – Thurs 11p / 10c

Categories: Politics