No, but seriously, how is this man President of the United States of Ameirca (warning: politics)

"[W]ait, what did you just say? You're predicting $4-a-gallon gasoline?... Oh, yeah? That's interesting. I hadn't heard that."

Update that seriously contextualizes this information: this was from three months ago.

The Pope's in town and we can't figure out who to kill

Sorry if that sounds too much like an indie rock song. Warning: politics and religion implicit in post.

Middle Eastern draconianism giving way to pluralism?

At least it is in in Qatar and possibly Saudi Arabia (‽) Of course, Turkey has been on this track for a while now. I mean, the Ayatollah is only getting more powerful, but take progressivism where you can get it, right?

I always knew it was a waste

But I never knew that Daylight Saving Time was actually counter-productive.

For those of you who love internecine racism

Which Europeans hate one another and why. (I realize that is not a sentence; get off my back. [I realize you're not on my back.])

City sues man for not making trash

"That's downright foolishness."

Stop me if I get political

If I can't spend more than I have, why can George W. Bush? He's deficit spent more than the first 37 presidents and 197 years combined. Since I've been alive, Democrats have cut deficit spending all but four times; Republicans have raised it all but four times. Since when is it okay to take $500 million loans from East Asian communists to fund Middle Eastern wars of aggression? Sometimes I've got to vent.

The only primary that matters

The Baby Primary. Bonus: Swift Kids for Truth.

This is what politics has come to, huh?

Presidential candidates endorsed by Internet sensations. Uh-oh (Video: 56-k approved.)

$75,000 for an internship

I wish I would have had an internship...

The Internet starts a war

Well, not really. But almost. Sort of.

Annoyed with someone?

Tell the FBI he's in al-Qaeda.

Rudolph Giuliani terrifies me.

I'm getting a little controversial here, but wow, he's an idiot. On the other hand, he would make an excellent President of 9/11.

Government + Mass Media

=Lies. Honestly, was anyone surprised by that? (Video: 56k acceptable and slightly irritating at first...)

The West's condescending-yet-privileged view of Islam

Dennis Prager hits the nail on the head (and, as usual, Christopher Hitchens goes a little too far.) Why should Islam be singled out among faiths? Why can't we talk about certain issues in Islam without being labeled bigots? Aren't Muslims offended that we treat them with such condescending care and concern that is not afforded other religious groups and essentially infantilizes them? Aren't non-Arab Muslims (read: the majority of Muslims) bothered by the ignorant racial connotation of "Islamophobia?" Do Western Muslims realize that the reason we don't criticize Islam in public is because we're afraid of being blown up? Isn't that more offensive to them? Ugh. This is how Western culture is cannibalizing itself...

Happy Independence Day!

An oldie but a goodie from the Onion. (Sorry to all my neoconservative friends.)

Rev. Martin Luther Kung-fu-tze?

I think I'm offended... If any liberals are reading this, please tell me how to feel.

Londonistan

Christopher Hitchens on the Islamization of England. Horrifying.

Bonus: Interview with Hitchens regarding Islamo-fascism. Excerpt:

Is London going to have another attack?

Of course. Everyone is. No city in the world is not going to have this. It's probably going to be the dominant fact of our future. They will be able to demonstrate with fairly convincing means that there is nowhere that's safe from them. It's coming.

Presidential approval ratings

Politics. Sorry. Check it out, though. Things of note:

1. This graph is deceptive, as the lowest value is 20, not 0.


2. Nixon had lower approval ratings than I ever thought.


3. Clinton ended on an upswing.

The appropriate response to tragedy

This was written about the September 11 terrorist attacks, but apply just as well to the tragedy in Virginia a few days ago.