Author: John

First off, having George W. Bush dedicate a library to Abraham Lincoln is like having David Duke dedicate a civil rights museum. It’s like having James Dobson dedicate a Kinsey collection. It’s like having . . . well, shit, you get the idea. It just ain’t right. But because you have to dedicate presidential libraries with the President you have, not the President you want, so it was that President Bush spoke at the Abraham Lincoln Presidential Library yesterday.

A memo to Congress: want to know why you’re pulling abysmal 34 percent approval ratings? A front page story in today’s Washington Post lays out the problem: while “inflation and interest rates are rising, stock values have plunged, a tank of gas induces sticker shock, ? for nearly a year, wages have failed to keep up with the cost of living,” and politicians in Washington are consumed with Terri Schiavo, “judicial tyranny,” and Tom DeLay.

This page right here is the one I go to to check the weather. It’s put out by the National Weather Service. It’s a lot like some commercial ones, only it has more information, costs nothing and contains no ads.