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Vanity Fair a long story online about the meltdown of Iceland’s economy. It’s a facinating piece about how a famously reticent, frugal people managed to create a financial bubble that is certain to go down in the history books alongside the Holland’s tulip craze. Although the autho...

I have no idea when this ad was made — though it looks to me that it was created in recent years under an attempt to make it look older — but I do know that it’s not nearly as cute as director Errol Morris apparently thinks it is: So not only do you have the same boring yet offensi...

Not Ezra Klein: EzraKlein Archive | The American Prospect: When the GOP appears set to dump its first African-American leader mere weeks into his tenure in favor of a member of an all-white country club, it's hard for schadenfreude not to turn into genuine pity and concern. Obviously, this was in la...

We were weighing another post about how eHow and Yahoo! Answers, among other hideous examples of free speech, are proving America is the dumbest and most unintentionally hilariously country in the United States, when this one question on our second least-favorite internet search engine became the we...

In a continuation of my jokes forwarded from friends series, this one is from my most regular contributor Andy, who may have been thinking of our friend Mary when he forwarded it. Hee hee hee. Four Retired Guys Four old retired guys are walking down a street in Naples, Florida. They turned a corner ...

That’s the only conclusion I can draw from their editorial/article (hard to say which it’s supposed to be), Science prevails. The era of stem cells has officially begun. Why it’s now “official” I don’t understand. They admit that funding was available for “a...

The story of my health insurance crisis, by the numbers.8 --The day in February (not March, FEBRUARY) that my doctor first sent in the pre-authorization for my medication.17-- The day in February that I picked up my last prescription for my medication and found out that the pharmacy had only filled ...

Michael Silence notes that Sen. Jim Tracy is trying to pass legislation that would make it illegal to read or send text messages while driving. These nanny state laws treat symptoms and not problems. My comment on No Silence Here: We don’t need a nanny state! We need better education. IF we wo...

Satyam Khanna reports: Sen. Bennett Lashes Out At Sen. McCain: ‘We Ought To’ Infest Arizona With ‘Mormon Crickets’: Recently, Sen. John McCain (R-AZ) has tweeted a series of top 10 lists of “porkiest projects” in the omnibus spending bill, criticizing “beave...