Russell | December 15, 2009
“Consider Christmas—could Satan in his most malignant mood have devised a worse combination of graft plus bunkum than the system whereby several hundred million people get a billion or so gifts for which they have no use, and some thousands of shop clerks die of exhaustion while selling them, and every other child in the [...]
Russell | December 3, 2009
In testimony before the Senate Banking Committee today, Ben Bernanke, Chairman of the Federal Reserve and nominee for a second term, called for cutbacks in entitlement spending such as Social Security and Medicare. In his best imitation of Willie Sutton, Bernanke said, “That’s were the money is.”
Interestingly enough, the Defense Department’s budget, along with the [...]
Russell | December 1, 2009
Where’s the “Mission Accomplished” banner, Mr. President?
runwolf13 | November 16, 2009
I read this story at AL.com and, while I’m not surprised, it really upset me. It is just another example of the state demanding access to the most private aspects of our lives.
While I encourage you to go read the story for yourself, the gist of the story is pretty straight forward. It seems Alabama [...]
runwolf13 | November 13, 2009
I’m a geek, but I’ve never claimed to be a genius. I have plenty of friends who rank up there, but I’m not one of them. One of the smarter of the bunch (not counting my fellow geeks here at Geek Palaver, of course) is my blogging friend Sarah Lena of the blog, The Anvil [...]
