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see more dog and puppy pictures My pal Kathy (our dogs' breeder) turned me on to this Cheezburger post. Her quote: "... I think mo...

Today is the anniversary of the Boston Tea Party of 1773 in which colonists threw a boatload of tea into Boston Harbor to protest taxation ...

I posted this about a year ago when I was working on the wife's office and the time was rife for me to start getting "Christmas gif...

The Rude One on the latest Repug bullshit. A good read: "Ye shall know them by their fruits," motherfucker, says Jesus. And, godd...

In These Times For the defense industry, dumb wars are the best ones because they create more problems than they solve, assuring future sale...

For the first time in years (the Mrs. put an end to it a while back), I personally went down to the Sheriff of Nottingham local Receiver o...

Or, "Keepin' Us Safe". Think modern-day Americans could deal with this? Click to embiggen. From my collection: In the London ...

People are getting tired of the bullshit : A record 60 percent of Americans say the war in Afghanistan has not been worth fighting, a grim a...

You will be. Go see " The Amazing ly Boring Antics Adventures of Gordon and Bermflinger! " at Fixer & Gordon .

Although Pedro Espada has too much chutzpah to resign, it's about time this scumbag had his day in front of a jury . Yeah, he's a ...

Abnormal Use 1931 was a long time ago, and few who live today can claim to remember it all too well. Just two years after the stock market c...

The header of an LATimes op-ed : Incoming House Speaker John Boehner weeps for our schoolchildren even as he works to take away their dream...

From Voyager 1 comes cutting-edge science on solar wind Shorter: if yer ship depends on solar wind for propulsion, yer gonna be sailing in b...

If it's Wednesday, it must be Morford . This is what they say. This is the breathless abandon that accompanies each tale of discovery an...

From Rep Spencer Bachus (R-AL), new chairman of the House Financial Services Committee via al.com : "In Washington, the view is that th...

Karoli : ... The old saw always goes thus: The Civil War was about states' rights. No. It was about states' rights to engage in huma...

For Christmas. I saw a news story the other day about a buncha kids at Purdue U who invented a robotic snowthrower. I looked for video of ...

Via TPMMuckraker In 1973, the Navy made a 20-minute animated movie warning sailors -- in graphic detail -- about the dangers of venereal dis...

A ' must read ' by Michael Moore via YubaNet. We were taken to war in Iraq on a lie. Hundreds of thousands are now dead. Just imagin...

YubaNet The Geminid meteor shower, which peaks this year on Dec. 13th and 14th, is the most intense meteor shower of the year. It lasts for ...