–Which is all the more reason we DEMAND PIE!

Obama seems to think so. From the CS Monitor: Maybe Iowa Senator Charles Grassley and President Obama have more in common than they think. At least there are similarities when they discuss AIG. Just two days ago Grassley told an Iowa radio station that AIG executives should consider suicide as an option. He later clarified that his remarks were just rhetorical and they should live. Good enough. But today, President

JournoList is keeping an eye on your behavior. I wonder, are they putting together a dossier on those sites that, you know, traffic in hate? Because that might come in useful to some, especially in a climate wherein the Fairness Doctrine is ascendant. Remember: free speech means tolerance, and tolerance now means not giving offense. Which, following that logic, means that we can only have truly free speech in a

“House adopts plan for ‘volunteer’ corps: Also requires new evaluation of ‘mandatory’ service for all”. From WND, via Weasel Zippers: The U.S. House of Representatives has approved a plan to set up a new “volunteer corps” and consider whether “a workable, fair, and reasonable mandatory service requirement for all able young people” should be developed. The legislation also refers to “uniforms” that would be worn by the “volunteers” and the

So. Like, I wonder what his intent was? Anybody? Professor Dyson? * **** update Throwing a wildly off-target haymaker what appears to be our way, Patterico writes: So how do you categorize Obama’s statement? Poor judgment? Thoughtlessness? Or TELLING IT LIKE IT IS?!?! To which I say, how the hell can anyone know before he or she has answered a blog poll, or adequately responded to the litany of carefully-crafted,

The most technologically savvy US Presidential campaign in ever! evidently wasn’t aware that NTSC and PAL are different standards, that there are a number of different region codes, and that some countries haven’t adopted the US standard. — Or maybe they were aware, and they just didn’t much care. Chant it with me now: DOWN WITH AMERICAN CULTURAL IMPERIALISM! LET NETFLIX BURN! SMASH THE MACHINERY OF DIGITAL VIDEO GLOBALIZATION! Jesus.

In Chicago. Tony’s gym is located just a few miles from O’Hare. A few spots still available. Those of you who will be in Chicago and want to skip the seminar but meetup with me, let me know. In addition to the seminar, some of us will be there for a few extra days (I’ll be arriving Wednesday the 8th and leaving Monday the 13th in the afternoon), and we’ll

From “No New Taxes”: I deplore this confiscatory tax aimed at whoever Congress is mad at today. Right now it’s AIG and Fannie Mae; later it will be Merrill and Citibank, and eventually it will be defense contractors, profiteering oil executives, or whomever the Congressional Dems single out as their whipping boy du jour. And of course, rolling this ex post tax out at the same time the Fed and

From the Hartford Courant: Executives at Countrywide Financial, one of the biggest names of the housing boom, routinely violated internal company policies to provide below-market rates on home loans to the politically connected and powerful, according to a congressional report to be released Thursday. Sen. Christopher Dodd, D-Conn., who is named in the report, has denied that he received any special deal from Countrywide. Last month he said that he

Unfortunately for the secular Messiah, he’s going to have to deal with this first year before he’s able to start campaigning again. Unfortunately for the country, it appears nobody close to him ever made that quite clear.