It all seems too little too late, doesn’t it? Still, I think we’d all like to see those that belong in jail finally make it there. The case for impeaching Bush isn’t the wiretapping scandal, but that whole war under false pretenses thing, oh, remember that? According to Elizabeth Holzman:
That’s why the strongest political […]

The ethanol issue is a wonderful example of delusional and self-serving government, pipe dreaming about energy independence.
Economists argue that making ethanol from corn wouldn’t make any sense without the government’s help. The mix of federal and state subsidies to corn ethanol amounted to a conservative estimate of $5 billion to $7 billion in 2006, […]

Dave Eggers, author of A Heartbreaking Work of Staggering Genius, and Valentino Achak Deng, Sudanese refugee and subject of Egger’s new quasi-fictional biography What is the What?, spoke tonight at the Margaret Mitchell house. It was one of those typical writerly events, free cheese with $10 admission, annoying introductions (what for?), no drum solos, […]

Live right, fellow bachelors.
Hryhoriy, who still has a full head of hair, says that being single has kept him feeling young.
He recommends a diet of milk, cheese and potatoes as well as the occasional shot of vodka.

I’ve often thought there was a special bond between the animated and equally rhetorical dictators Chavez and Dubya. They have a Yin and Yang thing going on. While Bush has arguably fanned the fires of terrorism worldwide, weakening the international reputation of the US in the process, Chavez has rallied the troops with his anti-imperialist […]

Here at manunderstress global media watchdog sports center, we object to all forms of cultural Nanny Statism, most especially trendy authoritarian legislation designed to keep us from getting fat, having too much fun, or just being as stupid as we want to be. We think nannies are better kept out of government.
In Georgia, our very […]

Someone is screaming sell-out, by defacing street art in NY. But is it cool? Is it art when you destroy art? Hmmm…I’m thinking of a brigade of nihilist dadas…interesting.
In recent years, some of these young artists have been embraced by galleries, museums and collectors, and there are those who fear that the practice might become […]

Watched a documentary on the Cuban missle crisis the other night, and then looked up the letters mentioned in it between Fidel Castro and Nikita Khrushchev. Here’s Castro in a loony and masochistic plea to practically end the world, if the US were to invade Cuba:
Letter to Nikita Khrushchev from Fidel Castro regarding defending Cuban […]