Well hello, boys and girls! I just wanted to check in and see how you all were doing in this age of political and economic suckivity. I suppose it could be worse after all … For instance … did you hear how I almost died or ended up as a vegetable? No? Well, then, come right this way and enter the Vortex of Wack-A-Doodle … I woke up 0400 on

WSJ: lately, current and prospective retirees have been hit on many fronts at once: They have less money, they earn less on what they have, their houses aren’t rising in value and the prospect of working longer to make up the shortfall has dimmed significantly in a lousy job market. “We will have to learn to make do with a lot less in material things,” says Gary Snodgrass, a 63-year-old

Oops! The self-important tut-tutting of the Beinarts and the Simons and their legion of hamfisted parrots aside, most Americans simply do not believe that their opposition to the Ground Zero mosque has anything at all to do with religious intolerance. That is, they understand the difference between what you are legally permitted to do and what you should do — and they find lectures on tolerance from those who refuse