More of those D.C. incidents last night:
Smoke poured into Metro subway tunnels again last night, a day after an unprecedented and unexplained series of such incidents, and baffled officials began to consider the possibility that the events were more than mere accidents.
“This is not normal,” Metro General Manager John B. Catoe Jr. said. “This is [...]

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Q. How many gay Republicans does it take to screw in a light bulb?
A. What, you mean there are straight Republicans?

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Go read Astrobarry about tonight’s/tomorrow’s eclipse:
Eclipse times are here again… which means a month or so of concentrated climactic development in the stories of our lives.
But before you get all uppity on me, muttering in disbelief, ‘Haven’t we already been going through some shit?’, let’s be clear on the distinction between different types of said [...]

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I hadn’t heard anything about this. Someone emailed me, asking, “Do you think this news is weird, or is it just me?”
No, I don’t think it’s just you. It sounds to me like someone may have been probing D.C.’s local emergency response capabilities:
Five separate outbreaks of fire or smoke on the Metrorail system shut down [...]

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Q. Is anyone in the GOP not gay?
A. No.

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Here’s one way to look at an eclipse:
A lovely total lunar eclipse will be visible throughout the Bay Area and all of California before dawn Tuesday morning as the Earth’s shadow darkens the bright full moon, and wherever skies are clear, it will be a time to look upward wide-eyed.
[...] The lunar eclipse this year [...]

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In the future, I want my children to grow up with the belief that what I did here was wrong, in a society that doesn’t deem that idea unpatriotic.
- Alex Horton, Frisco TX, soldier and Iraq war blogger.

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In an unusual aside, Andrew Cohen, who writes the Washington Post “Bench Conference” column, explains his Gonzo coverage of the past six months (who the hell is he apologizing to, anyway?):
Now that Gonzales is gone from office, I think it is an appropriate time for me to explain to you why I did what I [...]

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There are so many different ways for them to screw you. For instance, did you know many credit companies now state in the small print that if you’re late with another, unrelated bill, they can increase your interest rate because you’re a bad risk?
Now that the easy money in home mortgages is all but [...]

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Over at Kevin’s place, a quote from that Newsweek piece on the hunt for bin Laden that points out the longer we stay in Iraq, the stronger al Qaeda will get - and why.

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… when we could do whatever we wanted and no one could stop us!
Natasha found an ad that’s pretty damned interesting in a D.C. Metro station. Go see!

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Keep losing your glasses? Check this out.

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While I was driving to work, I saw a man walking his dog. His method for dealing with the waste disposal? He was following after the dog, holding a plastic bag underneath his rear end, trying to get the dog to go in the bag.
I thought to myself, “You’d never see a woman doing that.”

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Gone.

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Wall St. Journal:
Add another item to the economic worry list: Employers are shedding temporary workers.
Temporary employment, long a buffer that gives companies flexibility, has fallen each of the past six months, and in July was down nearly 2% from the start of the year, according to the Bureau of Labor Statistics. U.S. revenue at [...]

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And so it continues. Now the narrative is that if only we could get a better prime minister in Iraq (let’s completely ignore that inconvenient “democratically elected” nonsense), we can make Progress In Iraq yet again. Regime change ought to be good for at least another three Friedman Units:
Stung by criticism from Washington, Iraq’s prime [...]

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Notice how many of these “once in a lifetime” weather events are happening lately - and how close together?

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I read this NY Times piece today about candidates on the campaign trail with their kids, and was appalled to see just how heavily the whole thing was loaded against John Edwards. I was planning to write about it, but Jill over at Brilliant at Breakfast beat me to it.
Reporter Jodi Kantor did get in [...]

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Just go watch.

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Is Michael Chertoff going to replace Gonzales as AG?

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This is why I support a national primary day:
WASHINGTON, Aug. 25 — The Democratic National Committee, threatening to take the toughest line possible, voted Saturday to refuse to seat any Florida Democrat at the Democratic presidential convention in 2008 if the state party did not delay the date of its 2008 primary to conform to [...]

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Here’s a little Gospel for your Sunday morning:

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Maybe if we hadn’t chased so many of the career professionals out of the State Department, things like this wouldn’t happen.

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But then, the people who doubt the human causes of global warming are emotional, rather than rational:
BROOKLIN, Canada, Sep 11 (IPS) - There is little doubt now that climate change is making hurricanes and cyclones much more powerful and more frequent, top scientists announced Monday.
Sea surface temperatures are rising due to global warming and [...]

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Men, I think you know what to do:
A study shows that men who have three or more orgasms a week are 50 percent less likely to die from coronary heart disease.

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Welcome to the wonderful world of the Almighty Free Market:
BEIJING, Aug. 25 — No country in history has emerged as a major industrial power without creating a legacy of environmental damage that can take decades and big dollops of public wealth to undo. But just as the speed and scale of China’s rise as an [...]

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Q. Where is the line between torture and non-torture?
A. There is no line. Thank you for playing:
For reporting illegal arms sales, Navy veteran Donald Vance says he was imprisoned by the U.S. military and subjected to harsh interrogation methods.
Also held was colleague Nathan Ertel, who helped Mr. Vance gather evidence documenting the sales, according to [...]

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And it isn’t pretty. This story will bring up all that anger you’ve managed to suppress so far.
Look, here’s how I feel about this administration: Decent people shouldn’t even talk to them. Every time I hear someone say about Bush, “But you have to respect the office,” I just want to slap them. I [...]

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So this is what happens when you count on business to do the right thing.
Personally, I only buy used cars from actual owners who save all the vehicle repair information, the type of organized person I’ll never be. As soon as I see that manila folder with all the carefully-kept receipts (including all the oil [...]

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I wonder why all the people who were so wrong about everything are still considered “experts,” while bloggers who were right about everything are still Dirty Fucking Hippies:
The median price of American homes is expected to fall this year for the first time since federal housing agencies began keeping statistics in 1950.
Economists say the decline, [...]

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