Current Affairs

Election day. Goodness knows, the Republicans deserve a slap, but I'd love to see the look on the collective MSM's face if the Dems don't at least win the House. They're drooling on themselves right now: the House, the Senate, the majority

Slow moving Monday. For some reason, I was absolutely exhausted all day yesterday, and it has carried over today. I'm hoping to snap out of it shortly, but until then, just a few things: It's not too often you applaud an Anglican bishop, unless maybe you&

Festivus [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Festivus], for the rest of us. Today is All Souls Day: a day to pray for the souls in purgatory, one of the kindest acts of mercy you can do. And perhaps the most prudent. Since most of us will be in those purgatorial

Possibly the best opening line of all news stories this week: A high school principal received a six-day suspension and a letter of reprimand for giving one of his students a wedgie [http://www.foxnews.com/story/0,2933,225123,00.html]. The rest of the story isn'

Surveying the Internet landscape, there's a mish-mash of semi-interesting stuff, but nothing worthy of an entire post, not even one of my 10-word ones. News for the stomach strong: Harry Potter will perform nude next summer [http://www.foxnews.com/story/0,2933,224037,00.

I have no idea whether this guy is credible, but it's interesting: > If you think the world is on the verge of running out of oil or other mineral resources, you've been taken in by the foremost of seven myths about resource geology, according to

I've previously made the point that the environmental movement is tainted with misanthropes: folks who would prefer that folks not exist. I'd never seen them admit it, though, until I saw this [http://www.newscientist.com/channel/earth/mg19225731.100-imagine-earth-without-people.html] : >

A friend sends this along: Why Conservation is Conservative. Quotes by famous conservatives [http://www.rep.org/ConservativeQuotes.html]. Pretty neat.