Blog of Doom

Bush signs the $286 billion highway bill:
Because you can never have too much pork:
President Bush signed a $286.5 billion highway bill on Wednesday that he said would create new jobs but which critics contend is stuffed with billions of dollars worth of lawmakers’ pet projects.
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And don’t get me wrong: if the money appropriated by this [...]

In Romance with USA, Americans Play Hard to Get:
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In fact, it’s difficult to know just what Americans do approve of. Only 39% of Americans have a favorable opinion of the Supreme Court, which means that the public disapproves of all three branches of government.
And the media? It turns out that Americans like (and trust) those [...]

And if you want to hear something creepy from outer space, c…:
And if you want to hear something creepy from outer space, check out this eerie recording of Saturn’s radio emissions. Couldn’t be any better if it was in a scene from 2001 or Twilight Zone. (Seriously, click through to listen, I promise it will [...]

Last week I learned something new about Ash. She’s would make a good piggybank robber.
The other day, I saw a commercial from Wells Fargo about a woman to who put IOUs in her daughter’s piggy bank. I’ve seen it before, but this time, I thought of something.
I said “How does she get the money [...]

Ash got me a pair of Moleskine notebooks for my birthday. She got them after my birthday, but still they were my present. For those of you who know me well, you will know that I love stationery. I love paper in most of its forms. I collect business and calling cards, for example. I [...]

Who Hates Our Freedom?:
Musharraf’s Pakistan apparently:
For the vast majority of humans, terror comes in more mundane ways - like the violent hands that woke Dr. Shazia Khalid as she lay sleeping in her bed, and the abuse she’s suffered at the hands of Mr. Musharraf’s government ever since.
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The cynical Bush claim to be working for [...]