Oh Well: A Commentary

My apologies for the lack of blogging--I've been pretty much disgusted by the past two weeks of news to the point where you just have to...

This is just a fun Schoolhouse Rock song-- Lucky Seven Sampson. Music, lyrics and performance is by Bob Dorough. From YouTube:

For today's Saturday Morning Cartoons, how would you like to Hyde and go Tweet? This is a great Tweety and Sylvester cartoon, where ...

Blogging has been a little light this week, since it is the Turkey Week. I'll be back posting news stories for Friday. Until then, enj...

For today's Monday Schoolhouse Rocks, let's take a little trip into The Body Machine, where we can learn just what happens to all ...

The Ron Paul dollar in copper, silver, and gold. From The Liberty Dollar. I saw this story yesterday, and I just had to shake my head at it...

Judy over at Judes BlogLoggin sent me this story. From The International Herald Tribune: After six years of war in Afghanistan and Iraq, ...

Since Thanksgiving is just next Thursday, it is time for a Thanksgiving-themed cartoon. And here is a wonderful classic, Tom and Jerry in ...

Okay, my brain is fried. I'll post some more political stuff tomorrow. For tonight, I thought it would be fun to have The Bangles sin...

This is off McClatchy News: WASHINGTON — Rose Kramer was at her Dubuque, Iowa, home, waiting for the TV show "House" to start at ...

Comet Holmes is shown in this photo taken through a telescope from Palm Beach Gardens, Florida November 4, 2007. The comet experienced an ou...

This is big news. I found this through Americablog, with the source story from Wired Network: Civil liberties groups got a stunningly unex...

Graph showing parents and other advisors who are less inclined to endorse enlistments to young people. From McClatchy News. I found this st...

I don't really know how to comment on this boondoggle of a story. From ABC News: The State Department plans to equip its motorcade se...

This is from Marketwatch: NEW YORK (MarketWatch) -- J.C. Penney Co. reported Thursday a 9.1% drop in third-quarter profit, hurt by sweeping ...

Well, it appears that the subprime mortgage mess has hit another big bank. From Marketwatch: LONDON (MarketWatch) -- Britain's Barclays...

Graph showing the number of civilian deaths in Iraq over the past two years. From The Washington Post. This is from The Washington Post: CA...

This is on MSNBC News: WASHINGTON - House Democrats pushed through a $50 billion bill for the Iraq war Wednesday night that would require Pr...

This MSNBC story really speaks for itself, when you consider just how bad this housing bust and subprime mortgage mess is wreaking the U.S. ...

Here is another posting on two connecting stories. I'm going to start with the first story, going through Salon's War Room, titled ...