Bullets kill presentations.

Einar Host via Diomidis Spinellis.

Stop beating around the Bush and focus on beating the Bush.

Convenience trumps Privacy.

In the US, at least.

That's really tough luck, Job. But maybe there's a book in it.

A good idea doesn't care who has it.

Via Robin Nelson.

Wall Street made the mess. Main Street will pay for it.

Cornell is GORGES.

The invisible and the nonexistent look very much alike.

Contributed by Jon Moody.

But do they feel the same?

Cf.

"I see nobody on the road," said Alice.

"I only wish I had such eyes," the King remarked in a fretful tone. "To be able to see Nobody! And at that distance, too! Why, it's as much as I can do to see real people, by this light!"

--Lewis Carroll, Through the Looking Glass

Country music ain't as bad as it sounds.

Contributed by Jon Moody.

No wonder the Iraqis called it the Republican Guard.

2103: Mission finally accomplished!

After 13 Republican presidents, 80,000 American military deaths, and a $60 Trillion expenditure?

Busy. Busy. Busy.

As the Bokonists whisper.

No one is invulnerable.

Drought is the great enemy. Prepare for worse.

See The Great Warming, by Brian Fagan, reviewed in The New York Times by William Grimes. "Those who forget the past..."

$Trillion is the new $Billion.

Are you proud of what your $10,000 did to Iraq?

Think of what $10,000 per man, woman, and child could have accomplished if invested in improving the United States (or even in paying off mortgages).

My other job was outsourced, too.

You don't always get what you pay for, but you do always pay for what you get.

Almost half of Made in China products are safe.

If at first you don't succeed, just move the goalposts.

Support your right to keep your bare sterns.

Moon the Wall Street bondholders?

Don't blame the rich: They're still spending.

Break an optimization, go to jail. It's the law.

PEACEMONGER

The hurrier I go, the behinder I get.

Respect all sentience. Don't kill spammers.

Even if you think they're the lowest form of life on our planet.

Never buy anything from a man who's selling fear.

Mary Doria Russell. The context in Dreamers of the Day is

When it comes down to it, I don’t have much in the way of advice to offer you, but here it is:

Read to children.

Vote.

And never buy anything from a man who’s selling fear.

Well, that ends the Bear market!

The news.

Please stop flogging a dead Presidency.

American Civilization would be a good idea.

Barbara & Jenna: Enlist!

Jim Morris.

"An eye for an eye" makes the whole world blind.

W has now killed more Americans than Osama ever did.

Not to mention more Iraqis than Saddam (multiple estimates).

We still read.

Morris Berman.

Bush's Depression will top Hoover's.

So many Christians. So few lions.

Morris Berman.

If ignorance were bliss, Americans would be ecstatic.

Via Morris Berman and Steven Parkton.

We're looking at a record: All-time Worst Presidency.

It's not subprime, it's the leverage.

I Support Lost Causes ... and I vote!

Cybersecurity
Spam elimination
Privacy
Civil liberties
Slowing global warning
Peace on Earth
Kerry-Edwards '04
Gore-Lieberman '00

Vote for experience: Cheney-Rumsfeld '08