(NOTE: THIS IS A RERUN. WE NEED A LAUGH.)
I sent this to my friend S. last night and he responded thusly:
I understand that this rate is artificially low because people who have stopped looking for blowjobs — who have grown frustrated and left the blowjob market — are not considered officially blowjobless.

UPDATE: Oh, never […]

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Aw, shucks. That nice Mark Kleiman told his many readers to come over and give me money, but I don’t think they know why (and thus, don’t).
No, it’s not some major disaster. It’s just the plain old quiet economic devastation of long-term unemployment. After two years of either unemployment or only sporadic work, I’m finally […]

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Day is done
gone the sun
From the hills
from the lake
From the skies
All is well
safely rest
God is nigh.
I didn’t even know Uncle Jim was a vet. There was a military honor guard, and they played “Taps” at his graveside. They folded the flag and one of them handed it to my cousin Janet, saying, “The President of […]

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9/11?
Seven minutes to respond to the World Trade Center attack.
8/29?
Three days to respond to the devastation of Hurricane Katrina. (But hey, cut him some slack - he was on the last week of his month-long vacation!)
And people thought it didn’t matter that he was slow and stupid…

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To donate to the Red Cross, click here.
Local Red Cross chapters are putting together groups of volunteers to go to the affected flood areas - doctors, nurses, first responders, construction workers, etc. Find your local chapter here to see what you can do.
Other agencies who will help humans or animals:
Noah’s Wish (stranded animals)

Teamsters Disaster Relief

Masonic […]

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Bless you.

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I remember all those people who said they voted for Bubble Boy because he would “keep us safe”:
More than half of Americans surveyed say their family income is falling behind the cost of living, and another third say they are just keeping up with higher living costs, a poll commissioned by the AFL-CIO says.
The […]

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I haven’t seen real gas lines since the Iran hostage crisis, but I saw them at just about every gas station I passed today. Oddly enough, I found much cheaper gas in the city than the suburbs - $2.66 compared to $2.97 near home.
This is just the beginning. BushCo has spread the government safety net […]

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And while the people of New Orleans died, Bubble Boy strummed a guitar. With a presidential seal.

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Imagine how bad it must be for an FDA official to resign:
WASHINGTON - A high-ranking
Food and Drug Administration official resigned Wednesday in protest of the agency’s refusal to allow over-the-counter sales of emergency contraception.
Susan Wood, director of FDA’s Office of Women’s Health, announced her resignation in an e-mail to colleagues at the agency. The e-mail […]

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You put a rich-boy asswipe in the White House, allow him to purge the civil service of competent management, dump political contributors into the leadership ranks and you not only get a recipe for disaster, you get emergency managers who don’t have a fucking clue how to handle this heartbreaking tragedy.
Feeling safer yet?

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Hi kids, I’m home from my uncle’s funeral. Will post soon…

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Via Drudge Retort, here’s a blog entry from a National Guardsman from Georgia, written two days before he died in Iraq:
What the fuck has my chain of command been doing? We were winning somewhat when I left. And now we’re being pinned down in our own fucking homes? Insurgents are pushing locals out of their […]

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Jut one of the many disturbing scenes from the aftermath:
Late Tuesday, Gov. Blanco spokeswoman Denise Bottcher described a disturbing scene unfolding in uptown New Orleans, where looters were trying to break into Children’s Hospital.
Bottcher said the director of the hospital fears for the safety of the staff and the 100 kids inside the hospital. The […]

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Here’s what I want to know about the looters:
So, how are these people supposed to eat or buy diapers? Where are they supposed to get it? Where are the jobs they’re supposed to go to in order to earn money? And if they’re on welfare, how soon you figure it’ll be before they get the […]

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You can’t make this shit up:
In an email message we just received, a group calling itself Columbia Christians for Life alerts us to the fact that a satellite image of Hurricane Katrina as it hit the Gulf Coast Monday looks just like a six-week old fetus.
“The image of the hurricane . . . with […]

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Bubble Boy comes up with something closer to the real reason to explain why we’re at war in Iraq:
CORONADO, Calif. — President Bush answered growing antiwar protests yesterday with a fresh reason for US troops to continue fighting in Iraq: protection of the country’s vast oil fields, which he said would otherwise fall under the […]

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New Orleans is right below a couple of dozen chemical plants, and God only knows what’s in that water now:
The water that swept through New Orleans’ streets in the wake of Hurricane Katrina carried more than continued misery for the storm’s victims.
It also brought along a potentially toxic soup of pollution - sewage, chemicals and […]

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Times editorial:
But this seems like the wrong moment to dwell on fault-finding, or even to point out that it took what may become the worst natural disaster in American history to pry President Bush out of his vacation. All the focus now must be on rescuing the survivors. Beyond that lies a long and painful […]

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I wish I was surprised. But I’m not.

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So! That Iraq strategy worked out well, didn’t it? Thank God for Bush’s gut:
Richard A. Clarke, the former head of counterterrorism in the White House under presidents Bill Clinton and George W. Bush, said yesterday that there were twice as many attacks outside Iraq in the three years after the 2001 attacks as in the […]

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Gee, more documents:
Senate Democrats said that Tuesday’s discovery of some unreleased documents from Supreme Court nominee John Roberts could make things tougher for him at his confirmation hearings next week.
“If these documents reveal significant information about Judge Roberts’ views and we are not getting them until the eve of the hearings, there could well […]

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Shorter David Ignatius: Why does Paul Krugman hate Alan Greenspan - and thus, America?

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Every time I think about all those National Guard members in Iraq who should be home taking care of this, I get madder and madder. Thank you, BushCo:
With thousands of their citizen-soldiers away fighting in Iraq, states hit hard by Hurricane Katrina scrambled to muster forces for rescue and security missions yesterday — calling up […]

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Drinking Liberally tonight, 6-9 p.m. at Tangier, 18th & Lombard. Come hang out with bloggers, geeks and wonks - oh yeah, and some normal people are there, too.

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