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Is This a Good Thing or a Bad Thing?

The House of Representatives, gave a bi-partisan middle finger to the Bush administration and rejected the $700 billion dollar bailout of Wall Street.
I don’t know if this is a good thing or a bad thing. On the one hand, why are you and I, personally you, I and everyone you know, expected to pay [...]

You go, Pope!

Pope Benedict has declined a request from Condie Rice to have a meeting, the BBC reported today. Apparently she wanted to discuss (what else?)Iraq and the Middle East. The Pope’s people told her that he never took calls, as he is on vacation in August, and had her speak to his number two [...]

Colbert

Tonight on the Colbert Report, Stephen Colbert had his cast cut off of his wrist. He has put the cast up on eBay (it’s covered in signatures from people like Katie Couric, Bill O’Reilly and Nancy Pelosi), with all of the proceeds going to the Yellow Ribbon Fund. I checked at what the [...]

Karl Rove Quits…And I’m Not As Happy As I Should Be

It’s official, Karl Rove will be leaving the White House at the end of September, according to an interview he gave with the Wall Street Journal (why the Wall Street Journal? How come not the Washington Journal or Fox News?) This is something that a lot of us have wanted for some time…say [...]