Condi's Claims

Americanprogress.org has a very succint list of bogus claims by Condoleeza Rice, countered by facts with references. It starts off good and gets better:

CLAIM: "I don't think anybody could have predicted that they would try to use an airplane as a missile, a hijacked airplane as a missile." – National Security Adviser Condoleezza Rice, 5/16/02

FACT: On August 6, 2001, the President personally "received a one-and-a-half page briefing advising him that Osama bin Laden was capable of a major strike against the US, and that the plot could include the hijacking of an American airplane." In July 2001, the Administration was also told that terrorists had explored using airplanes as missiles. [Source: NBC, 9/10/02; LA Times, 9/27/01]

War Is Peace in Oceania

Some people have set up a nice website documenting and parodying some of the Orwellian tactics the Bush administration have employed.

Resolution to the Pledge "under God" problem

Today's Washington Post has an inspired editorial that suggests supplanting The Pledge of Allegiance with the Preamble of the Constitution: not only does it obviate the current controversy, but it would also replace a meaningless bit of flag-worship with a concrete statement of our nation's values.

Since the Post requires registration, and I find that these sorts of links always expire after a month or so, I'm posting the entirety of the editorial here.

Restoring honor to Washington?

I guess the GOP, tired of Democrats hogging all the scandal spotlight (with their Monicagate and Whitewatergate and uh.. all those others.. ), have succeeded at generating some scandals of their own, each leading to investigations or even formal criminal charges: the Carpetbagger Report is running a nice list..

Several of these items are so deplorable that I shudder to think at the rage Newt Gingrich would have incited had Democrats been guilty of them.

The Money Map

The Money Map is a nice visual representation of where funding for this year's presidential election is coming from. It's interesting to contrast the George W. Bush map with the John Kerry map; whereas Bush is getting much deeper contributions from all across the country, Kerry is getting shallower contributions in small, select areas.

<insert your own depressing conclusions here>

Massive climate change imminent?

According to the Guardian UK,

A secret report, suppressed by US defence chiefs and obtained by The Observer, warns that major European cities will be sunk beneath rising seas as Britain is plunged into a 'Siberian' climate by 2020. Nuclear conflict, mega-droughts, famine and widespread rioting will erupt across the world.
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The report was commissioned by influential Pentagon defence adviser Andrew Marshall, who has held considerable sway on US military thinking over the past three decades. He was the man behind a sweeping recent review aimed at transforming the American military under Defence Secretary Donald Rumsfeld.

No, it's no a tabloid article - read the whole thing here.

WWJD?

Rumsfeld self-contradiction

Was Iraq an "immediate threat"? Watch Donald Rumsfeld contradict himself on national TV:

http://www.electrictao.net/files/rumsfeld.swf (mirror of MoveOn.org's movie)

Imaginary Girlfriends

Tired of being told to "get a girlfriend"? Want to make someone else jealous? Get an Imaginary Girlfriend!

In the FAQ, these people swear they're a real service, but what happens when your cubicle mate and you both choose the same girlfriend in your attempts to make the hot secretary jealous?

Peter and Crystal's Big Fat Texas Move

All the pictures of our move: http://www.electrictao.net/gallery/texasmove
Pictures of our new apartment:http://www.electrictao.net/gallery/mesaverde