Barking Rabbits

I'm not too fond of business trips, and especially not fond of two of them back to back. So, there won't be much in the way of new ...

Yeah, I know that, in politics, hyperbole on the campaign trail is to be expected, and you really need to paint your opponent in the most un...

The last few months have been excruciating. Even though I am a terrible cynic, I still seem to be enough of an idealist that I end up being...

The picture and following text are from the Oct. 20th issue of Aviation Week and Space Technology. Sorry, no link, as it is a subscriber-on...

Here is just a smattering of what some Republicans have said this week. We have the brother of the Republican Presidential candidate calling...

The sign says, in full (since it is cropped a bit on the bottom), “Charles Manson was a community organizer.” I see… So, the attempt now i...

What does it say about Barack Obama when he consorts with known sub-humans with a penchant for drinking the blood of helpless animals, like ...

The other night at the (mercifully) last presidential debate, John McCain came up with a doozy of a line . It’s in the title, but I will re...

BYLINE NOTE : Originally posted on Oct. 13. Something about Blogger is putting everything under Sept. 29th. Well, I was wrong. I had hope...

This IS all a dream, right? I mean, all this crap cannot really be happening in the United States of America. The Dow Jones had its worst w...

It’s beginning to look like one of those domino things you set up as a kid, where you push on the one at the end and it eventually causes ev...

I would like to make clear that this is not a movie review. I sometimes do movie reviews at this website, and this isn’t one of them. This...

Here we have a wonderful example of how bereft of all morality, not to mention common sense, these a**holes that run major corporations are...

Specifically, I was pondering the meaning of the presence of so many ex-Seattle Mariners on all the post season teams, and the fact that the...

I’m very tired of her and am upset about how yet another bright, shiny, distracting thing has, once again, become the focus of the campaign ...

From Americablog .

Picture from Jesus General .

The America that wingnut blowhards like herself helped create, I might add. A few days ago, she wrote a column at Townhall (that bastion of...

As always with these types of photos, I would provide a link to the original source and tell something about the artist, if I had anything t...

I just can't get my head around any of this. But watching John Boehner blame Nancy Pelosi for the defection of 2/3 of the Republicans o...

I haven’t seen much of her in the news of late. Of course, I suppose that is to be expected, given the “mushroom cloud” hanging over our ec...

Steven Hadley looks on in bemuse- ment. Photo from Princess Sparkle Pony .

Just when I thought the political season couldn’t get any stranger, I see this. You can click here to see the whole story in the Seattle Ti...

Here are some more interesting headlines. Amazing how quickly you can get caught up on the news if you don’t take the time to actually read...

"I'm sure glad there aren't regulations about making us use helium instead of hydrogen. That would cut into our profits!"

That’s what the U.S. government (meaning you and I, unless you happen not to live in the U.S., of course) is going to be spending to essenti...

From the AP via the Seattle PI . ANCHORAGE, Alaska -- Alaska Gov. Sarah Palin's husband has refused to testify in the investigation of h...

Once again, Republicans in a government being investigated for something that looks to be rather shady activity are refusing to honor subpoe...

I will be the first to admit that I am very unlearned in financial matters. I think that was one reason I went into engineering in college....

It’s very bizarre, as I noted earlier. When has a vice-presidential candidate upstaged not only her opponents but also her presidential run...

I had thought that things couldn’t get much worse then under the Bush administration. I was wrong. It seems like the Bushies, even though ...