BP acts with minimum decency => Obama = Nazi

This title was the argument made by Thomas Sowell over at investors.com.  Aside from insulting everyone that voted for the Obama in 2008 by suggesting that we are unthinking sheep, and linking the election of President Obama to the rise of Hitler and Lenin he argued that we as a society of laws are going...

Oil Spells Big Trouble for Little Fish

CNN reported this week that a small, recently-discovered deep-water fish may be on the verge of extinction as a result of the oil spill.  The Louisiana pancake batfish (Halieutichthys aculeatus) lives on the bottom of the Gulf of Mexico at a depth of 1500 feet.  Interestingly, this little guy is in the...

Apologies to BP?

Today during BP CEO Tony Hayward’s testimony before Congress, a Republican representative from Texas took it upon himself to apologize to Mr. Hayward for the White House’s “$20 Million shakedown.” Congressman Joe Barton’s comments are quoted below. He later recanted his apology saying “I...

Regulating the regulators

So I was going to write about who I am, and the direction I wanted to take the blog.  Ok, thats not true, I really did not want to do that, so instead I decided to procrastinate by writing about a sexy scandal that I hope we all know about already Over the past few weeks, I have talked to quite a few...

Even More Annals of Stupidity

1. When Glenn Beck says he was wrong, you know it’s gonna lead to something worse: For almost a year, Glenn Beck has been warning with increasing panic that America is headed toward socialism. Tonight, he issued a correction: “They” are not marching the United States toward socialism, Beck...

You’d Think They’d Take Off One Night a Week

Conservatives never miss a chance to show off how stupid they are: Today is the second annual Earth Hour, a worldwide campaign to raise awareness on the issue of climate change. At 8:30pm local time, major businesses, local and national points of interest, and individual homes will dim their lights for one...