From the site: “The Nacho is younger than John McCain. For the first seven years of his life, John McCain lived in a cold, dark, lonely, nacho-less world.”
http://www.thingsyoungerthanmccain.com/
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There’s an op-ed in the NY Times today making a rather puerile and pointless attempt to link Barack Obama to the more frivolous aspects of the character of the nation’s 35th President, John F. Kennedy.
Drawing some very tenuous parallels between JFK’s rocky first meeting with Nikita Krushchev, who opined of Kennedy that he was “too [...]

Admiral William Fallon, commander of the United States Central Command, has resigned effective March 31st. [link]
His resignation comes after a recent Esquire magazine article about his disagreements with the Bush Administration over intervention in Iran. Fallon had long been known as being his own man, and was widely seen as having stood up to Bush [...]

Conservative icon William F. Buckley was found dead in his home at the age of 82 today.
It is, perhaps, the most fitting remembrance that I should note that Buckley’s conservatism was neither dogmatic (as his opposition of the Iraq war and his advocacy for decriminalizing marijuana underscores) nor intellectually bankrupt: Buckley called ‘em as he [...]

Well, looks like some people aren’t just going to sit idly by while private companies engorge themselves in Iraq on the country’s dime: [link]
Some excerpts:
The dollar value of Army contracts quadrupled from $23.3 billion in 1992 to $100.6 billion in 2006, according to a recent report by a Pentagon panel. (For the record, that’s a [...]

The answer: Sure as hell, not you. [link]
Unless you grow Frankencorn, buy Frankencorn for your factory farms, or sell Frankencorn in your stores.
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Bush is soaking up accolades in Africa, where he’s increased aid and been a positive force in a lot of the never-ending problems that continent has spawned. [link]
It’s sad to see these little echoes of what his Presidency should’ve been.
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Well, yeah, Nancy. Didja just figure that one out? Forget how you wound up the first female Speaker in your fancy dresses and greasy smirks? [link]
Now why don’t ya DO SOMETHING ABOUT IT. Kthxbye.
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This may be the most ridiculous thing we’ve seen in this election cycle: [link]
It’d be one thing if Chelsea Clinton were still 12 years old and deserving of a private life. But she’s all grown-up now, and choosing of her own free will to participate in a political campaign for all the marbles. That makes [...]

This story is burning up the Reddits: [link]
Here’s the actual news story: [link]
I’m reading the comments on Reddit, and it’s like, Dude. Is everyone just now realizing that all the governments in the Middle East are Allah-ocracies?
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