This isn’t actually a tornado-victim cow that had a tree blown through its head…

It only sorta looks that way.

Another entry from our Stellaluna-writing friend Janelle, this is an Ankole, native to Africa, and hopefully a low-gravity region.  Because, dang.  That’s a lot of horn to have to carry around.

Sometimes if Ankoles are having trouble getting up, a couple of pudus will climb under each horn and lift with all their might.

Which doesn’t actually accomplish anything.  But the Ankoles always appreciate it anyway, and they let the pudus think it made an enormous difference.

William H.T. "Bucky" Bush, brother of Bush 41 and thus uncle to the Chimpinator, just pocketed almost half a million dollars, thanks to a sweetheart no-bid contract the Pentagon just coincidentally gave the company he worked for.  (See "Uncle Bucky and the Rocket-Fueled Breasts" and links, below.)

This was hinky enough that even the DoD’s own inspector general is quietly taking a second look.

Rep. Henry A. Waxman (D-CA for whom I actually enjoy voting) has now asked Rumsfeld to hork up the contracts so the rest of us can have a look-see.

As an aside on bias in news reporting: can you imagine the media firestorm if say, Hillary’s second cousin’s company had pocketed $450,000 from a no-bid Pentagon contract.  Can you imagine?

The howling and hissing would frighten wildlife.

The Bush years are finally going to sink America for good.

By blowing it up.

Been meaning to link to this for a couple of days now.  Thanks to Kathy at the Consumers Union for the heads-up.

Great music, funny as hell, dead-on.  Enjoy.

Then bug your Congress to behave with the slightest bit of sanity.

On a related topic, I know a lot of folks are trying to get Canadian drugs into the country… but wouldn’t it just be a lot faster if we imported Canadian legislators?

As we cross the threshold of 1500 U.S. deaths…

What’s "indecent" here?
Actual people being blown to bits every day, and an FCC which has allowed corporate consolidation to eviscerate the news itself
643   86.4%
A three-second glimpse of a human female nipple
83   11.2%
Actors pretending to be eviscerated while using naughty, naughty words
14   1.9%
Actors pretending to be eviscerated
4   0.5%

And in this supposedly developed country, scores of millions of people seem to think that self-flattering displays of religiosity will somehow help fix everything, that what we need isn’t more rational thought, but less.

That is so profoundly misguided words fail me.  Fortunately, someone more articulate has already spoken:

"History, I believe, furnishes no example of a priest-ridden people maintaining a free civil government. This marks the lowest grade of ignorance of which their civil as well as religious leaders will always avail themselves for their own purposes."

— Thomas Jefferson, 1813

New poll at left.