The movement to recall Arnold has begun.

Oh, man, we need this.  (Read the bill of particulars.  He really has been an amazingly shabby, shallow, and corrupt governor, even by contemporary standards.)

The movement to recall Arnold has begun.

Oh, man, we need this.  (Read the bill of particulars.  He really has been an amazingly shabby, shallow, and corrupt governor, even by contemporary standards.)

The Economist Intelligence Unit’s annual study of the best places to live on Earth put four Australian cities — Melbourne, Perth, Sydney, and Adelaide — in the top ten.  (Brisbane was tied for eleventh place, incidentally.  So those of you in Canberra, Cairns, Darwin, and Alice Springs are missing out.)

Canada had three of the top ten.  Switzerland had the other three.

The best the U.S. has to offer?  Cleveland and Pittsburgh.  Seriously.

The Economist apparently doesn’t consider baseball as a factor in quality of life…

Unscientific silly fun thing Mike Gerber pointed out.  I came up thus:

My "opposite" is supposedly the Idiot Savant.

Which logically categorizes me as Bright Guy Who Can’t Actually Do Anything.

Sounds about right.

Also, by the same creator: The Would You Have Been A Nazi Test.  I came out as "The Expatriate": someone who would have fled years before the takeover.

Gosh, I wondered why I follow cricket and rugby and talk about Australia all the time…

The tragedies are starting to stack up faster than I can keep track of.

30,000 feared dead just in Kashmir alone in the latest earthquake.  Ten 9-11s.  Ten of them.  At once.

Hundreds killed in mudslides in Guatemala and El Salvador.  Whole
families wiped out, with no one left even to identify the bodies. 
Communities simply wiped off the Earth.

This after Katrina.  And Rita.

And the Asian tsunami.

Crap.

The way Mother Nature has been behaving lately, maybe we should be driving SUVs.

OK, hold on.  I almost lost my head there.

If you want to pitch in, there are links aplenty upper left and right.  The upper left Oxfam link is specifically for the Kashmir quake.  The links on the upper right are just for general depressing random mayhem.