Good morning.

February is winding to a close, and with it, hopefully the end of what our friends in the auto business consider their "peak" season. Hell, perhaps you've even bought one.

Most TV commercials are things I can tune out and pretend don't exist. Rare is the one that annoys me or causes me to have some sort of editorial comment. I don't pretend to know the advertising market, but maybe you've seen the trippy dancing avocado singing about toast and breakfast recently? Dear Avocado Guys: this isn't really going to improve my opinion of what is essentially wood putty, but I digress.
Continue reading...

1 comments (Latest Comment: 02/23/2014 02:16:12 by Will in Chicago)

I will truy to get something written today, unless anyone else wants a stab at it.
Continue reading...

42 comments (Latest Comment: 02/20/2014 22:31:00 by livingonli)

Good Morning.

Today is our 4,517th day in Afghanistan.

We'll start this morning as we always do; with the latest casualty figures from our ongoing war, courtesy of Antiwar.com:

US Military Deaths - Afghanistan: 2,308
Other Military Deaths - Afghanistan: 1,111

We find this morning's Cost of War passing through:

$ 1, 514, 734, 625, 000 .00
Continue reading...

32 comments (Latest Comment: 02/18/2014 21:18:04 by wickedpam)

While it may appear that Velveeta is on a man-hate rampage after last weeks blog, I assure you this is just coincidence.

Another white dude in Florida violently kills a black teenager, even brags about it, yet does NOT get convicted of murder.
Continue reading...

2 comments (Latest Comment: 02/17/2014 16:24:10 by Scoopster)

During the Republican heydey of the last decade, there was an explosion of anti-gay sentiment across the nation, as state after state added anti-gay-marriage amendments to their state constitutions. In 2004, 11 states passed amendments prohibiting gay marriage, and sometimes civil unions as well. It was deliberate, hateful, and - as we are seeing more and more - unconstitutional. It also would seem to go against conservative small-government principals, but hypocrisy has never been seen as a fault in those people.
Continue reading...

19 comments (Latest Comment: 02/15/2014 02:42:16 by TriSec)