Remember the plant in “Little Shop of Horrors?” “FEED me, Seymour!!!”
Pentagon officials have prepared a new estimate for defense spending that is $450 billion more over the next five years than previously announced figures.
The new estimate, which the Pentagon plans to release shortly before President Bush leaves office, would serve as a marker for the [...]

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I just spotted this rather peculiar advertisement.

Now why are Senators Dodd and Grassley staring at this young woman’s rear end and what does that have to do with my online transactions? Perhaps the graphic was a leftover from Leering Old Man Appreciation Month.
Let’s try this again, but with more cursing this time.
Hey senators. If [...]

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You really have to love these guys. People dropping dead from bad food and products, people losing their homes all over the country and their big worry is…
Regulation.
The idea that less regulation is better for the economy has held sway in Washington since the Reagan administration. Now that consensus is crumbling, posing a potentially costly [...]

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Next Thursday is ole’ Valentine’s Day. Love the day, hate the day, ignore the day?

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Quinn Cummings is, as always, dead on and funny as hell:
I am also cleaning out the closet because I don’t know if you noticed but we’re heading into the Crap Accumulation Season. I know, I am bending my rule about working clean, but I chose my word with justifiable precision. A year ago, when it [...]

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