protein wisdom replies: “Tell you what: you can do away with your debt ceiling the minute all of us can do away with being forced to send you our money. “If it’s your own money you want to spend without limit, have at it. But were I you, Rep. Johnson, I wouldn’t spend it all on a pair of water wings for Guam. Trust me, you don’t have that kind

Beth Shaw, Resourceful Earth News: U.S. Senator Maria Cantwell (D-Wash.) recently wrote a letter to the EPA urging the agency to halt the Pebble Mine Project in Alaska. The Alaskan copper and gold mine project has been in limbo for more than three years – with $120 million spent to research how to have minimal impact on the surrounding environment near Bristol Bay. Once it has been officially proposed, the

Surprise! China is beginning to place conditions on bailing out over-extended western countries. Some call this blackmail. I call it “what the fuck did you expect? These people have ‘population control’ and gulags, for Chrissakes!” Frankly, I like mine better.

Jon Huntsman. Who apparently is running for President. On the GOP ticket! Honestly, who knew? Meanwhile, every time it seems Americans are getting fed up enough to get off their couches and survey the political landscape with an unjaundiced eye, they backslide into Hope and Change and the empty promises of an empty suit. Obama leads Perry 46-39 (Rasmussen). Last month, before entering the debates, Perry held a lead of