Here’s to lighting a fire under your ass on a Monday.

News/Politics

Peace Between Palestine & Israel: Well, not quite yet. Feel free to hold breath.

There Hugo: The opposition takes another small bite out of Hugo Chavez’s hold on Venezuela.

Dan Savage and husband Terry: Remember, it gets better. Very inspirational words from the loving couple.

This just strikes me as hilarious.

Tucker Carlson’s greatest journalistic achievement.

I have been a little angry lately, things are not going right in Afghanistan and I want everyone who reads me to know why. This isn't going to be too long, because I need to get a bike ride in this morning.

Nowhere in the bible does it say that Jesus isn’t a raptor.

News/Politics

Pakistan: A slow-moving tsunami wrecks havoc, as help is slow to come.

How many times have we heard the phrase War on Terror over the last nine years? How many times have the very people who are now frothing and screaming about the Cordoba House community center (the alleged "Ground Zero Mosque") also screamed the words "War on Terror," and frothed at anyone who they felt was not acting (and I do mean acting) seriously enough about that "War?"

Sarah Palin talking with “Nicolas Sarkozy.” We must never forget.

Shockingly, turning the population upside down and shaking them to collect loose change isn’t working out as well as the EU or Greece hoped. From Der Spiegel:

When you have the money to paint your churches gold, you have enough money to pay income tax, says I.

Bats. Why did they have to be bats?

News/Politics

Pakistan Floods: Capitalism not stepping up to the plate to help out Pakistanis stuck in a watery hell.

Nothing quite showcases the hallowed ground near Ground Zero better than Thunder Lingerie.

Don’t say you weren’t warned about blood-thirsty terror babies.

The jury has been selected, and the trial begins this morning: the first prosecution of a Guantanamo detainee since Obama instituted his new, improved, Supreme Court-compliant military-commission system. Not at all like Bush's, except for every important detail.

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Why blogging is better than spitting fire: My face almost never bursts into flames.

August 10, 2010:

News/Politics

Census Bureau Returns Cash: Counting people isn’t as expensive as first anticipated.

Despite early failures such as the one above, Jake Tapper has still managed to achieve lofty status in the D.C. media world.

Humans – the cure for a tranquil planet.

Director and photographer Louie Psihoyos captures images from the Gulf of Mexico.

(image, Gina Papabeis, OPS)