Pic of the day:  Saint Jerome by Leonardo Da Vinci ____________________________ Strange—is it not?—that of the myriads who Before us passed the door of Darkness through, Not one returns to tell us of the road Which to discover we must travel too. Omar Khayyam, Rubaiyat of Omar Khayyam ____________________________ Sudan dropped bombs on South Sudanese [...]

Republicans voted to bring jobs to America?  Nooooo, they might want you to think that but… The only problem with it is that the number of jobs they say it will create (30,000 by their numbers, 3,000 by more rational estimates) is over inflated, and the house is doing this to get a pipeline through [...]

But I get the feeling that I’ve written this before… You had to know John Boehner, and by extension the right, wasn’t serious about a budget agreement.  First wrote that on the 9th of this month, and here I am writing it again.  I write it because it is true, I write it because it [...]

Teachers make too much money! is the title of a wonderful note I found floating on teh intarwebs(thanks for posting it Ed) about teachers salaries and how much they deserve for the job they do.  It is very àpropos with the complaints from the right-wing main stream media machine about how these teachers and others in Wisconsin are [...]

Some Commercials just annoy the crap out of me.   There is this commercial on, runs a lot on, among other networks, MSNBC, for some thing called nofoodtaxes.com.  Claims that taxes are going to be raised on juice drinks, soda and the like.  Watch the viddy titled “Give Me a Break” Americans Against Food Taxes TV Ad  below: [...]