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McCain Health-Care Article Fuels New Clash Over Economy
The article, which appeared under McCain’s name, was published in Contingencies magazine, which is produced under the auspices of the American Association of Actuaries. In it, McCain touted his plans for increasing competition in health care as one way to expand coverage and reduce costs.
McCain [...]

I found I couldn’t improve on that title.
More than half of all Americans believe they have been helped by a guardian angel in the course of their lives, according to a new poll by the Baylor University Institute for Studies of Religion. In a poll of 1700 respondents, 55% answered affirmatively to the statement, “I [...]

Via Shakesville:
So, after Joe Biden said, awesomely, that paying taxes is patriotic, Sarah Palin retorted, mendaciously, that raising taxes is “about killing jobs and hurting small businesses and making things worse.”
Biden’s response?

How many small businessmen are making one million, four hundred thousand–average in the top 1 percent. Give me a break. I remind my friend, [...]

Apparently this is me.
So, not too long ago at work we were suffering through some “group exercises” to “build teamwork” (thankfully there was no “hugging,” or GOD forbid, “sharing”)–BUT anyway, one of the things we did was take the Myers-Briggs assessment. I’ve never formally taken it before and certainly never done so with a [...]

It’s hard, though. I think it’s because she’s a woman and it just makes my teeth hurt when a woman pops up on the national stage and acts like a power-hungry hypocritical dingbat. Now, that’s reverse sexism–so she’s a female Huckabee! Why don’t I cringe as miserably from his existence? Clearly [...]

I cordially invite all of you PunkAssers who are in the Minnesota/ North Dakota/ Manitoba area to come to my wedding on Friday, September 19th. Please send me an email if you are available, in the area, and would like to attend.

I keep hitting mental road-blocks when I try to do my law school assignment, so I figured I would try and contribute to my blogging duties.
This weekend, I went to the dreaded local temple to capitalism (otherwise referred to as a “mall”) with my friend PE.* I needed to find some clothes that looked [...]

My parents just retired and bought a beach house in Galveston. Their timing was stunning.
Who knows if their house is still there. But, they’re safe in Austin and that’s all that matters as far as they’re concerned. The 140,000 others who ignored evacuation orders and stuck around, on the other hand, faced “certain death”, at [...]

I already derailed the comment thread on Hugo’s first post of three about the book Guyland: The Perilous World Where Boys Become Men by Michael Kimmel, and I flatly refuse to do it again to his second post, darn it! So I’m going to express myself here instead. (Amanda has another take on [...]

You know, people in other countries watch this shit and so do total misogynists. Then again, why worry about what people in other countries think about America’s choices for Supreme Leadership of our country? After eight years of Dubya, how could their opinion of our intelligence fall any further? And misogynists are [...]

By the way, if you haven’t watched any of Amanda and Marc’s new series, RH Reality Check, please do so now. They’re really great. I am so proud.
(They’re on YouTube, too, for any who might have trouble with Vimeo.)
Normally, Our Glorious Founder Punkass Marc does his magic behind the camera, but he makes a [...]

A: The ones doing the killing never seem to care if the intelligence it’s based on is actually true.
Q: Why not?
Brad Hicks: (emphasis mine)

If you studied American history prior to about 2000, even if you studied it at the college level, you were almost certainly taught something wrong, because the truth was one of America’s [...]