Barking Rabbits

President Obama really wants to pass an economic stimulus bill and can do so just with the simple majority of Democrats in both houses. How...

Rush Limbaugh would rather have President Obama fail than have something good happen to the country, all in the name of ideology. That’s th...

Every blogger in the country must have a similar post up by now. I am certainly not going to add anything new or insightful. But this joyo...

Ancient civilizations looked upon comets as harbingers of some future catastrophe. Our science and technology has advance considerably sinc...

I’m amazed that George Bush hasn’t pulled several hundred muscles in his stretching to find rationales for his actions and silver linings in...

I just finished reading a really informative feature story on the Washington Monthly blog . It covers a lot of ground, but it is mostly adv...

My one huge reaction is this. Yeah, I understand why Israel must respond to rockets being dropped indiscriminately into their towns, killin...

Rough New Year's Day morning. (Personally, I think Nina, with her pink nose and lips and white mustache and beard, sort of looks like an...

Namely, they need to understand the difference between personal attacks and political criticism. Republicans have so blurred the distinctio...

Boy. I am just so amazed that so many fundamentalists seem to have a direct pipeline in to God, such that they know exactly what He is thin...

Jeez. I cannot believe some people can be so obtuse. And this isn’t in some fifth tier conservative blog. This opinion column was in the ...

I have seen this story a couple of times, based on a survey from CNN. Here is part of the story from the Nation . Twenty-three percent of A...

Photo from here.

It's Christmas, dad is running around acting like an idiot, everyone's really happy, and all Santa brought me was this stupid roll o...

I have several hundred things that I would like to show you.

More investors, large and small, lose billions of dollars of investments. From the NYTimes: But on Friday, less than 24 hours after this pro...

Douglas Feith has relinquished his crown. I am not going to try to summarize all the revelations about this asshat. This statement from an...

There is some very interesting and somewhat alarming data being collected on the Earth’s magnetic field. Here are a couple of items that fi...

I am serious. There really isn’t any word other than “insane” to describe this . NEW YORK - Police were reviewing video from surveillance...

Well, I guess I can only get wring a dab of pleasure from seeing the news that the Seattle Supersonics, er, make that Oklahoma City “Thunder...

Now, the first question that might pop in to someone who has looked in on this blog before is, what is a blog that has been almost exclusive...

Several I have seen really are almost manic in the desire to impart that Christmas (read “shopping”) spirit. All you have to do is look at ...

It’s kind of like staring at a car crash sitting on the side of the road. You know you shouldn’t be gawking. There are some people there w...

Beyond the fact that “Minimalist Blogger” is a bit of an oxymoron, and therefore very humorous in an absurdist sort of way, I find the conce...

As I have said many times before, I have no training, or even understanding past the basics, of our economic system. But I do read a number...

I haven’t picked on television commercials for a while. That was somewhat of a staple of this blog when I first started. It’s an easy targ...