Twits.

According to a LinkedIn Research Network/Harris Poll, 69% of adults surveyed have little knowledge of what Twitter is. I disagree.

100% of intelligent adults don't give a shit what Twitter is and don't waste their mind power on pointless time-vampires like Twitter.

Independence Day, if you please.

When in the Course of human events, it becomes necessary for one people to dissolve the political bands which have connected them with another, and to assume among the powers of the earth, the separate and equal station to which the Laws of Nature and of Nature's God entitle them, a decent respect to the opinions of mankind requires that they should declare the causes which impel them to the separation.

This past week I've probably pissed a few people off (so what's new?) by correcting them when they wished me a "Happy July 4th"!

I corrected them by telling them that July 4th is just a date and that the Holiday we celebrate is Independence Day, not just some random date on the calendar. That in 1776 our forebears declared an end to what the believed was tyranny and separated themselves from what was the then, the greatest military Empire since ancient Rome. To do this, they risked not only their reputations, but their wealth, their very lives. (Ok, I didn't go into quite that much detail, but you get the idea!)

The men who wrote our Declaration of Independence were not perfect men, they did not live perfect lives, they did not write a perfect document, nor did they create a perfect nation. However they believed that an oppressive, arrogant, unaccountable government is the enemy of freedom and that liberty cannot co-exist with tyranny. They believed that life, liberty and the pursuit of happiness were our God-given (yes God) rights and they declared rightly; "That whenever any Form of Government becomes destructive of these ends, it is the Right of the People to alter or to abolish it, and to institute new Government, laying its foundation on such principles and organizing its powers in such form, as to them shall seem most likely to effect their Safety and Happiness."

They may not have been "prefect men", but they sure as hell had the right idea.

There's a message in that Declaration for all of us today, if we have the guts to believe it.

Happy Independence Day.

Special Interests Win The Day.

"When special interests put their thumb on the scale, and distort the free market, the people who compete by the rules come in last."
- Candidate BARACK OBAMA, in a speech: Aug. 2, 2008

This past week the U.S. House of Non-Representatives passed by a narrow seven vote margin, the American Clean Energy Security Act, a bill touted by special interests. A bill which critics (Republicans mostly) claim will raise taxes and be a job-killer and which proponents (you guessed it, the Dems) believe will end our dependence on "foreign oil" and create new jobs.

The one thing the bill will definitely do is raise our energy costs (that would be the amount you pay for electricity in your home or business). Turns out that you paying "too little" for electricity encourages us to use more "foreign oil".

Time will tell I suppose, whether or not this bill will do what Obama and his Democrats say it will, my personal opinion is that it won't.

I can't see how raising my utility bill is good for me and that's the one thing that everyone on both sides of this bill say is going to happen. It figures that would be the one thing that all of our elected Non-Representatives would agree on.

Welcome to Bizarro World.

(T)he Minnesota Supreme Court on Tuesday unanimously ruled Franken the winner of last November’s Senate race. In a 5-0 decision, the court upheld a three-judge panel’s April 14 ruling that Franken defeated Coleman in the race by 312 votes out of 2.9 million cast.

The Minnesota Supreme Court today declared unfunny Comedian and failed radio host Al Franken the winner in the U.S. Senate race against Norm Coleman.

Will there be widespread Democratic outrage that the court intervened and decided the case ala Florida 2000? Or that neither candidate had a clear majority?

Of course not.


"HONK!...HONK!...HONK!"


In other news, the big fat hairy asshole in charge of Iran has declared the election in that country valid and declared Janitor-in-Chief Mahmoud Ahmadinejad the official winner of the completely impotent position of President of Iran. The janitor is declaring victory, even as Iranian protesters are killed in the streets for questioning the outcome of the vote. Gives an all new meaning to the term "hanging chad"...or perhaps "hanging Abdul" would be more accurate?


"Does this pose make me look important?"

Darkness Gripped Sanford?

It wasn't "darkness" that gripped South Carolina's Governor Mark Sanford and led him to have an affair with María Belén Chapur, his Argentinian mistress.

I'll leave it to your imagination as to what it was which gripped Mark Sanford.


Mistress Uni-Brow.