“If you plant some trees, is it OK to drive an Escalade? The question isn’t as silly as it sounds. People worried about global warming increasingly are trying to “offset” the carbon dioxide–the leading greenhouse gas–they spew into the atmosphere when they drive, fly or flick on a light. One idea popular with the eco-conscious [...]
Posted by RawStory.com Headlines:
The Chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff dramatically underestimated the number of deaths of US Armed Service-members in the Iraq War. The gaffe came as General Peter Pace appeared on CBS News Monday morning to discuss Memorial Day.
(from: Memorial Day: Pentagon General undercounts number of US troops killed since 9/11attacks)
The crime [...]
“A top aide to White House political adviser Karl Rove has ‘cleared out her office,’ according to a report in Monday’s Washington Post. Sara Taylor, Rove’s top lieutenant, has seen her name brought up in recent months in Congressional hearings relating to the firing of 8 US Attorneys.”[therawstory]
Man, I am so sick of hearing about [...]
Check out this post from The Daily Dish:
In one of his most egregious statements yet, the vice-president attacked the Geneva Conventions at the West Point graduation. Sending this signal from the vice-president’s office to the future officer corps is a staggering attack on the rule of law, American military honor and a virtual green [...]
OK, I said I would post some photos from time to time. These are just some snapshots I took today.
And it’s looking pretty damned familiar. Today’s piece by Peter Canellos [Boston Globe] via [TPM] takes a look at some putrid rhetoric being dragged out and reheated for America. One hopes fewer people will gobble it up this time and ask for more.
Former New York mayor Rudolph Guiliani asserted, in response to a [...]
Hilarious images of photographers and non-photographers plying their trade. A few of these I’ve seen before, but many were new to me.
Check out this post from The Online Photographer:
This is very funny. (Warning: the second picture down is not workplace/school friendly.)
Posted by: MIKE JOHNSTON, thanks to Sandy R.
An 11-year-old Alabama boy used a pistol to kill a wild hog that just may be the biggest pig ever found. Jamison Stone’s father says the hog his son killed weighed a 1,051 pounds and measured 9-feet-4 from the tip of its snout to the base of its tail. Think hams as big as [...]
Well, at least somebody’s calling him on it…..
Check out this post from RichardDawkins.net : The Latest Updates:
Cairo, Egypt - Al-Azhar University, one of Sunni Islam’s most prestigious institutions, ordered one of its clerics Monday to face a disciplinary panel after he issued a controversial decree allowing adults to breast-feed.
(from: Adult breast-feeding sucks, authorities say [...]
Sweet. [TPMCafe]
“This country is united in our support for our troops, but we also owe them a plan to relieve them of the burden of policing someone else’s civil war. Governor Romney and Senator McCain clearly believe the course we are on in Iraq is working, but I do not.
And if there ever was [...]
