In this case, “flat” is short for “flatulence” in Estonia: Farmers this week received their first ‘fart tax’ demands asking them to pay for the greenhouse gases their cattle produce. A single cow is thought to produce on average 350 litres of methane and 1,500 litres of carbon dioxide per day from flatulence and burping. It is thought that cattle are responsible for up to 25 per cent of methane gas emissions

Barack Obama and Robert Malley — one of Obama’s Middle East policy advisers — severed ties after The Times of London reported on Malley’s meetings with the terrorist group Hamas.   Malley was one of a select group of Obama foreign policy advisers mentioned by both Newsweek and the Washington Post last fall.  However, after coming under scrutiny in the blogosphere, he was suddenly “one of dozens of middle-level types who send position papers to

Justice for Robert Pedersen! Eyes. The Dog and the Cat, Their Diaries 

Fox News Channel production assistant Jennifer Locke was fired this morning after being heard on video telling John McCain she voted for him. MSNBC host Chris Matthews remains employed after talking about how Barack Obama has put thrills and chills in his leg since 2004. Female journos (whose identities are likely well-known in the biz) heard on video openly ogling Obama’s crotch on his campaign plane?  Presumably still employed. (h/t HotAir headlines.) Update: Allah-lanche!

Two related themes I have frequently invoked in my guest-blooging are that this cycle seems to be shaping up as part of a 16-year cycle of “change” elections and that we thus should not be surprised that the presumptive presidential nominees of our major parties prevailed in no small part because they appeal to the public demand for hopeyness and changitude, which is expressed in polls as the desires for bipartisan cooperation and the

Obama wins endorsement of government employees union Along with creating millions upon millions of green jobs, he’ll help promote this growing and increasingly important sector of the economy.

Code Pink brings their gibbering idiocy to the Berkeley Marine Recruiting Station, once again:  “Most of the time they are just practicing their right to protest and their freedom of speech or whatever, so it’s not usually a problem for us. But sometimes it crosses the line, and that happened [Monday] when the grannies were here blocking the entrance and banging on the door,” Wheatcroft told FOXNews.com. On Tuesday, Code Pink’s

I know some pw regulars were especially keen to see the Wachowskis’ film adaptation of the 60s Japanese cult cartoon, so here’s a non-spoilery review.