Song of the Week

Taser the Children
by Michael Dare

Don't be a miscreant
Don't be a fool
Don't pick up glass
And never skip school
Follow the rules
All will be fine
We taser the children who get out of line

Never chastise them
Don't smack their butts
Don't put electrical wires on their nuts
Torture could be misconstrued as benign
Just taser the children who get out of line

Don't bother your conscience
And don't drop the flag
Don't save Private Ryan
(We heard he's a fag)
Contribute to civilization's decline
And taser the children who get out of line

Don't wait for President Bush to resign
Just taser the children who get out of line
We think delivering pain is divine
We taser the children who get out of line

We stick our thumbs up and give the high sign
And taser the children who get out of line
We loves our mad cow and grind up our swine
And taser the children who get out of line

We make a madhouse and call it a shrine
We taser the children who get out of line
We taser the children
We taser the children
We taser the children who get out of line

Big Dick Cheney

The thread at the Free Republic celebrating the size of Dick Cheney's penis has been pulled, presumably like the penis itself.

Prayer of the Week

Dear Lord Jesus,

    Thank you for not killing me before I had a chance to accept you as my Personal Savior.
    I believe that Liberals and Democrats are under the control of Satan and his sneering minions, the educated and the well-traveled.
    I do not want to be tossed into the incandescent flames of the sadistic hell you created for those who did not vote for George W. Bush or waiver in their faith by questioning the honesty, competence or syntax of Jesus' anointed.
    Please Lord Jesus, I want to become a True Republican™ and a Real American™. I accept you as my Lord and Savior.
    I believe You died for my sins and rose on the third day and floated off to your invisible, exquisitely decorated mansion in the Holy Ghost's subdivision in the clouds while an audience of early Republican prophets looked on.
    I believe that in voting Republican, I am doing the implacable will of God.
    I long to join my brother in Christ, George W. Bush, and every single True Christian™ who voted for Him.
    I understand that all of America's problems began when we allowed ourselves to be seduced by the pinko, pacifistic false version of Jesus found in the New Testament, letting non-Protestant foreign trash into Your divine nation and squandering time we could have been at war trying to make peace with perfectly good enemies, before renewing our hearts and joyously embracing Republican Christianity's new improved, steroid-engorged version of Jesus Christ.
    I want to help eliminate the deadly disease of liberalism and assist my President and Your appointed servant on Earth to help rebuild this country into the Glorious Christian Nation it once was on the rocky shores of Puritan New England in the late 1600's.
    I gladly tithe my mind and no less than 10% of my paycheck, renouncing the demons of logic and education for they will no longer hold sway in my heart, as I now have both Mr. Bush and Mr. Jesus as my co-redeemers!
    Amen!

- whitehouse.org -

Guide to Iraq

guerrilla                  gorilla

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Stupid Answers of the Week

I’m reading an old ‘special’ magazine from 1981 about Adam Ant in his days of finery.
- Neil Braynion -

What was the question?
- Xarvon -
 

   then i saw the new slim shady video.
   then i saw the new saudi slim video.
   that's when i realized that asscroft knows what it's like to lose a race to a dead man.
   wellstone me if i'm wrong.
   and get me stoned if i'm right.
   but kerry will make it
   thu election night. [Aren't you glad I printed this a week too late?]
   and if i'm wrong, we got a trial lawyer who will appeal thru at least 2007.  good thing we've got experience in being leaderless, eh?
- dburke11 -

Stupid (and Gay) Questions of the Week

1) Why would a gay person want to defend a country or a "president" that treats them as second-class citizens and as political fodder or scapegoats?

2) Why are the armed forces willing to discharge rocket scientists, Arab language translators, soldiers and intelligence analysts for being gay, when we need to have a back door draft to forcibly retain soldiers because we have a shortage?

Send your answers to stupidquestion@earthlink.net.

Why Colin Powell Quit

It was that or have sex with Liza Minnelli
("I've seen the paperwork." - Helen)

Duh!

Quick. You're an Iraqi rebel and you're pre-warned the U.S. is invading Falluja. What do you do? Attack police stations in Baquba, Mosul, Kirkuk, Tal Afar, and Suwaira.

Quiz of the Week

Yasser Arafat was...

a) poisoned
b) strangled
c) a homosexual who died of AIDS
d) Jewish
e) under the care of Ussef bin Kevorkian, MD

Your Daily Dose of Embarrassment

Condoleezza Rice was born to be a vocal member of the Podunk PTA with a stick up her butt about teaching evolution, not the goddam Secretary of State of the Goddam United States of America. Alberto R. Gonzales was born to be a crooked consiglieri for a minor hood rotting away in a minimum security prison, not the goddam Attorney General of the goddam United States of America.

Dueling Articles

Laetrile (vitamin B17) can prevent and cure cancer vs. Laetrile (vitamin B17) is a fraud and isn't even a vitamin.

Don't Take My Word For It

"A little patience, and we shall see the reign of witches pass over, their spells dissolve, and the people, recovering their true sight, restore their government to its true principles. It is true that in the meantime we are suffering deeply in spirit, and incurring the horrors of a war and long oppressions of enormous public debt... If the game runs sometimes against us at home we must have patience till luck turns, and then we shall have an opportunity of winning back the principles we have lost, for this is a game where principles are at stake."
- Thomas Jefferson in 1798 after passage of the Alien and Sedition Act -

"Make me worthy to perceive my own light. Make me worthy to perceive the Blue Pearl, which is my very Self."
- Gurumayi Chidvilasananda -

"Out of nowhere today, we learn that Winston Churchill's parrot is not only still alive, but continues to rail against Hitler and the Nazis. Charlie, a blue and gold female macaw, is, at 104, Britain's oldest bird now that the Queen Mum has expired. The mirror.co.uk reports that she still shrieks 'Fuck Hitler!' and 'Fuck the Nazis!' in Churchill's memorable timbre, the prime minister having taught her to swear."
- World of Wonder -

"The truth will soon be hitting much of the conservative nation like a redneck smacks a dog: now that the fear-saturated Right has handed this failed oilman four more unrestrained years to do his dirtiest deeds and a deeply contaminated, well-greased Congress to do it with, he no longer needs their support and he couldn't care less about their 'moral values' or their positions on Social Security reform or the war in Iraq or just what the hell he meant about spending the 'political capital' he claims he's earned by winning the election (by the slimmest margin of any incumbent president in history)."
- Mark Morford: We Are All Dubya's Doormat - 

"As democracy is perfected, the office of president represents, more and more closely, the inner soul of the people. On some great and glorious day the plain folks of the land will reach their heart's desire at last and the White House will be adorned by a downright moron."
- H. L. Mencken - 

"Let's move ahead in time. Perhaps just a few months - but no more than 4 years. It's early morning and you're driving to work. You listen to the news like you always do. They announced that a major building in a key city was just dirty-bombed. It's not that the building itself suffered that much damage - but the bomb was up on the 50th floor. It scattered plutonium and depleted uranium waste over more than a city block, and the wind and rain is expected to make it worse. The newscaster tells you that experts have deemed it impossible to clean up. The cancer-causing waste has been drawn into the ventilation system and has settled into all the ductwork. It will remain at a radioactive level that will be harmful to human life for thousands of years."
- Ted Twietmeyer: What Will YOU Do When It's Too Late? -

"With the ravaging of the CIA and the ousting of Powell - instead of the more-deserving Rumsfeld - the coup of the neo-conservatives is complete. They have achieved a remarkable political victory by failing upward."
- Robert Scheer: The Peter Principle and the Neocon Coup -

"You are always the same
Unfathomable awareness,
Limitless and free,
Serene and unperturbed.
Desire only your own awareness."
- Ashtavakra Gita 1:17 -

"The objective of securing the safety of Americans from crime and terror has been achieved."
- John Ashcroft's final letter to Dubya -

"Can I go home now?"
- Xarvon, alien investigator -

"It is like that nice guy in America, what's his name again?, who spoke about old Europe. It has no sense. It's a lack of culture to imagine that. Imagining that there can be division between the British and French vision of Europe is as absurd as imagining that we are building Europe against the United States."
- Jacques Chirac -

    "When Walter Cronkite talked on CNN last month about Osama bin Laden's scary pre-election video, yet another cat leapt out of the conspiracy-theory bag. 'I'm a little inclined to think,' Mr. Cronkite told host Larry King, 'that Karl Rove, the political manager at the White House, who is a very clever man, he probably set up bin Laden to do this thing.'
   "It's not clear whether this was a tasteless joke or a stray filament of wishful thinking; Mr. King probed no further. Yet the comment was a reminder that conspiracy theorizing--formerly confined to the realms of alien abduction kooks and grassy-knoll debaters--is edging ever closer to the mainstream. Like it or not."
- The Plots Thicken: "The most trusted man in America" becomes a conspiracy theorist -

"Any time an [Iraqi] expectant mother is a victim of violence, two [Iraqi] lives are in the balance, each deserving protection and each deserving justice. If the crime is murder, and the unborn [Iraqi] child's life ends, justice demands a full accounting under the law."
- George W. Bush annotated -

"Americans were fascinated by the trial of Scott Peterson. And if they liked the trial of the alleged murderer of just ONE pregnant woman, imagine how much America will love the trial of George Bush, a man who is responsible for the murder of possibly THOUSANDS of pregnant women!"
- Jane Stillwater: Liked the Scott Peterson trial? You'll LOVE the George Bush trial! -

"The individual is handicapped by coming face-to-face with a conspiracy so monstrous he cannot believe it exists."
- J. Edgar Hoover -

"Dr. Sutton believes the 'left' versus 'right' split is fraudulent and  used to control the debate and condition citizens to think along certain  lines. Left-wing magazines like The Nation and The New Republic and right-wing magazines like The National Review were 'artificially set up.' The former were financed by Whitney money while the latter by Buckley. Both are 'The Order.' Dr. Sutton states: 'Sooner or later people will wake up. First we have to dump the trap of right and left. This is a Hegelian trap to divide and control. The battle is not between right and left; it is between us and them.'"
- Henry Makow Ph.D.: Conspiracy Too Monstrous To Conceive -

"First they ignore you, then they laugh at you, then they fight you, then you win."
- Mahatma Ghandi -

"If all that Americans want is security, they can go to prison. They'll have enough to eat, a bed and a roof over their heads. But if an American wants to preserve his dignity and his equality as a human being, he must not bow his neck to any dictatorial government."
- Dwight D. Eisenhower -

"I'd rather be Don Quixote than another statistic."
- Douglas L. Wilson -

"The Bush Administration aims to recruit millions of United States citizens as domestic informants in a program likely to alarm civil liberties groups. The Terrorism Information and Prevention System, or TIPS, means the US will have a higher percentage of citizen informants than the former East Germany through the infamous Stasi secret police. The program would use a minimum of 4 per cent of Americans to report 'suspicious activity'."
- Ritt Goldstein: US planning To Recruit One In 24 Americans As Citizen Spies -

"It is my big mistake that I have cooperated with FBI. The FBI have already destroyed my life and my family's life and made us in a very danger position."
- FBI informant against al Qaeda, Mohamed Alanssi, in an interview before setting himself on fire in front of the White House -

"With not much original reporting, I discovered that the latest big fine by the FCC against a TV network -- a record $1.2 million against Fox for its 'sexually suggestive' Married by America - was brought about by a mere three people who actually composed letters of complaint. Yes, just three people."
- Jeff Jarvis: The shocking truth about the FCC: Censorship by the tyranny of the few -

"Many British people regard the battle beginning at Fallujah and last week's casualties among the Black Watch with dismay, even revulsion. They perceive an ugly predicament in Iraq growing worse by the day, and Tony Blair allowing hapless British troops to be dragged ever deeper into it. Here, they say, are the first fruits of the re-election of George W. Bush, an ignorant and dangerous man. Heaven help those shackled to his chariot wheels."
- Max Hastings: We are in this together: if America fails, we fail -

"It is very uncomfortable to fight as partners with allies who have a completely different attitude to the value of civilian lives from our own."
- British senior advisor in Basra -

"The U.S. forces are expected to increase their barbaric acts in the hope of finishing off once and for all the Iraqi resistance so that they can have peace and realize their aims, foremost of which is the rearrangement of the country in such a way that would enable their new allies to hide behind 'a false legitimacy,' which they will use to open a new phase in which the final word will be that of a ruling gang in Tel Aviv."
- Al-Watan: Saudi Arabia -

"The right of voting for representatives is the primary right by which all other rights are protected. To take away this right is to reduce a man to slavery..."
- Thomas Paine -

"I don't think anyone should expect that the movie is exactly like the books, which I'm not convinced would make a great movie. People keep asking me if authors were in control of Hollywood, would films be better? I think films would be a lot wordier."
- Daniel Handler (Lemony Snicket) on the making of the film of A Series of Unfortunate Events -

"If we have to use force, it is because we are America. We are the indispensable nation. We stand tall. We see further into the future."
- Madeleine Albright, then the secretary of State, in 1998 -

"An empire remains powerful so long as its subjects rejoice in it." 
- Livy (Titus Livius): Roman historian at the end of the 1st century BC - 

"If circumstance compels the U.S. to prolong its presence and increase the size of what is, in effect, an army of occupation, then Washington may soon see a need to transform Iraq into a colony or at least what the British called a 'protectorate,' because the only alternative is inconceivable: making Iraq the 51st state."
- Anthony Pagden: Bush Is No Emperor. Some say the American troops swarming Iraq are the vanguard of imperialism. They're wrong. So far. -

"Take up the White Man's burden
And reap his old reward: 
The blame of those ye better, 
The hate of those ye guard"
- Rudyard Kipling -

"The offensive in Falluja is filled with political and military symbolism, which is why America's future in Iraq could be decided in this city. The attack by U.S. troops and Iraqi National Guard members falls between two elections. In the United States, the commander in chief has just been freshly legitimized... In Iraq , elections are supposed to be held in January, by which time the offensive should long have been successfully concluded. Such a success would strengthen the incumbent Iraqi Prime Minister, (Ayad) Allawi. But Falluja is more than a town - it is now the symbol of resistance, it is the insurgents' recruitment office."
- Sueddeutsche Zeitung: Munich -

"What did the inhabitants of Falluja do to deserve this fierce attack? ... What makes our hearts bleed is the participation of the Iraqi government in committing such a massacre by backing the U.S. occupation forces and encouraging them to kill innocent Iraqis. Arab and Muslim countries [must] achieve unity in... sending the message that terrorism can never be brought to an end by imposing ready-made recipes on Middle East countries."
- Samir Ragab - Al-Gomhuria: Egypt -

"There is no rationale whatsoever for the invasion of Falluja. The attack is basically to express Schadenfreude at the Iraqis and get even with them... However, as we are in the holy month of Ramadan, we would like to say here that such an aggression against the innocents will not be accepted by God, and that there is another superpower up there monitoring developments."
- Al-Quds al-Arabi -

"This battle is a critical one for the future of Iraq, which has become a crucial test in the global war against militant Islamism... Though the government is indeed backed by foreign coalition forces, the terrorists' war is, if anything, a more foreign attempt to hijack Iraq's future."
- The Jerusalem Post -

"The immediate military outcome of the offensive by U.S. soldiers and Marines against insurgents in control of Falluja is hardly in doubt. The Falluja offensive is supported by the interim Iraqi government of Prime Minister Ayad Allawi in the hope that pacifying Falluja will help the country to hold credible national elections in January. Yet, questions remain about the likely success of this strategy. Some in the minority Sunni community threaten to boycott the voting, while clerical leaders of the Shiite majority see it as their path to power."
- Fallujah attack a new Bush test -

"It is not anti-Semitic to criticize the policies of the state of Israel."
- Colin Powell -

"We plant merit with our minds, and we commit crimes with our minds. With our minds, we imprint images. This one mind is like an artist. It can draw anything, and what it draws is realized. If you surrender your impressions, ideas, thoughts, and so on at the moment they arise without imprinting them on your mind, your minds will not be tainted, just as the lotus flower is not tainted by the muddy water whence it grows."
- Jae Woong Kim: Polishing The Diamond -

"To see things in the seed, that is genius."
- Lao-Tzu -

    "As the city of Falluja came under full-scale military attack, one must question the reasoning behind launching the offensive and wonder at the cost... With more than 15,000 US, British and Iraqi government forces, the US-led offensive is intended to 're-establish government control' before next January's elections...
    "No doubt this is a decisive moment for both the occupation and the occupied. Any future relationship... will be defined not by the final outcome of the attack, but by the final casualty count and the level of destruction. In the end, it is the innocent Iraqis who are paying the price... The real question is whether the Falluja offensive, which is named as Operation Al Fajr (Dawn), will mark dusk rather than a dawn." 
- Gulf News Editorial, United Arab Emirates -

"Perhaps the destruction of Falluja is meant to be a lesson to the Sunnis, just as the gassing of Halabja and the draining of the marshes were Saddam Hussein's lesson to the Kurds and Marsh Arabs, respectively. But tanks cannot win political battles. Washington's only hope was to conquer the insurgents through peaceful persuasion, all attempts at which seem now to have been abandoned... America's overwhelming military might will silence the insurgents' guns in Falluja. But nothing will have changed. The anger that is driving the insurgency will still be in place and may well be stronger than ever."
- Gulf Times: Qatar -

    "The Chinese government recently arrested Zhao Yan, a research assistant for The New York Times in Beijing, and the Bush administration has been very helpful about protesting the case. Maybe Colin Powell [R.I.P.] can work out a deal: the Chinese government will stop imprisoning journalists if the U.S. government will do the same.
   "Protecting confidential sources has been a sacred ethical precept in publishing ever since John Twyn was arrested in 1663 for printing a book that offended the king. Twyn refused to reveal the name of the book's author, so he was publicly castrated and disemboweled, and his limbs severed from his body. Each piece of his body was nailed to a London gate or bridge.
   "So, on the bright side, we have evidently progressed.
   "In May, Iran's secret police detained me in Tehran and demanded that I identify a revolutionary guard I had quoted as saying 'to hell with the mullahs.' My interrogators threatened to imprison me unless I revealed my source. But after a standoff, the Iranian goons let me go. Imprisoning Western journalists for protecting their sources was too medieval, even for them. Let's hope the U.S. judicial system shows the same restraint as those Iranian thugs."
- Nicholas D. Kristof: Our Not-So-Free Press -

"The national government will maintain and defend the foundations on which the power of our nation rests. It will offer strong protection to Christianity as the very basis of our collective morality. Today, Christians stand at the head of our country. We want to fill our culture again with the Christian spirit. We want to burn out all the recent immoral developments in literature, in the theatre, and in the press - in short, we want to burn out the poison of immorality which has entered into our whole life and culture as a result of liberal excess during the past years."
- Adolf Hitler -

"Fuck Hitler."
- Winston Churchill's parrot -

    "Avid participation in deplorable actions has been integral to Powell's career. A few examples:
    "Serving as a top deputy to Secretary of Defense Caspar Weinberger, Powell supervised the Army's transfer of 4,508 TOW missiles to the CIA in January 1986. Nearly half of those missiles became part of the Reagan administration's arms-for-hostages swap with Iran. Powell helped to hide that transaction from Congress and the public.
   "As President Reagan's national security adviser, Powell was a key operator in U.S. efforts to overthrow the elected government of Nicaragua. When he traveled to Central America in January 1988, Powell threatened a cutoff of U.S. aid to any country in the region that refused to go along with continued warfare by the contra guerrillas, who were in the midst of killing thousands of Nicaraguan civilians. Powell worked to prevent the success of a peace process initiated by Costa Rica's president, Oscar Arias.
    "When U.S. troops invaded Panama on December 20, 1989, Powell was chair of the Joint Chiefs of Staff. He had 'emerged as the crucial figure in the decision to invade,' according to British newspaper reporter Martin Walker. Hundreds of civilians died in the first hours of the invasion. Powell declared on that day: 'We have to put a shingle outside our door saying Superpower lives here'."
- Norman Solomon: The Powell Trap - 

"Before advancing against men weaker than yourself, ponder when you stood before those more powerful."
- Tirukkural 25:250 -

    "The death of Yasser Arafat overshadows the re-arrest of Mordechai Vanunu, and it was, as they say, no accident: Arafat had barely breathed his last gasp when 20 to 30 heavily armed Israeli police commandos stormed the Anglican cathedral of St. George in Jerusalem, seized Vanunu, and confiscated his computer, while their superiors absurdly yelped that he had 'leaked classified information.'
   "Yes, the Israelis get really mad about the leaking of classified information – unless it's their own agents in the U.S. who are on the receiving end. But the funny part – if black humor suits your tastes – is that the 'secrets' he is alleged to have 'leaked' have been known for nearly 20 years. The thuggery of the Israeli 'International Crimes Unit' that desecrated a Christian church will only serve to remind the world what Vanunu revealed all those years ago. This act underscores the brazen hypocrisy of Israeli whining about Iran's efforts to obtain nuclear weapons – when everyone knows Israel has as many as 200 to 400 nuclear-armed missiles aimed at Arab capitals, and – who knows? – perhaps at a few European ones as well."
- Justin Raimondo: Arafat and Vanunu: Two Prisoners of War - Israel's move against Mordechai Vanunu, the man who exposed their nuclear secrets, couldn't have been timed better -

"Reality according to Buddhists is kinetic, not static, but logic, on the other hand, imagines a reality stabilized in concepts and names. The ultimate aim of Buddhist logic is to explain the relation between a moving reality and the static constructions of logic."
- Reginald T. Cahill: Process Physics: From Information Theory to Quantum Space and Matter -

"In 1979 a secret unit was established by the most gifted minds within the US Army. Defying all known accepted military practice - and indeed, the laws of physics - they believed that a soldier could adopt the cloak of invisibility, pass cleanly through walls and, perhaps most chillingly, kill goats just by staring at them. Entrusted with defending America from all known adversaries, they were the First Earth Battalion. And they really weren't joking. What's more, they're back and helping to fight the War on Terror."
- Jon Ronson -

"Ideologies separate us. Dreams and anguish bring us together."
- Eugene Ionesco -

"Minds are like parachutes - they only function when open."
- Thomas Dewey -

    "In international news, we have a truly disturbing item from the June 21 edition of the Daily Yomiuri, an English-language Japanese newspaper, sent in by alert Tokyo reader Howard Weitz man. This item begins: 'An 83-year-old professor emeritus has been arrested on suspicion of attacking and injuring a salesman with a sword after the man offered to "fix his sewage pipes."'
   "The article states that the professor, Tatsuo Chubachi, was at home when the salesman came by and offered to fix his pipes, at which point Chubachi 'produced the sword and slashed the sales person on the buttocks.' The professor was arrested on suspicion of, among other things, violating the 'Firearms and Swords Control Law.'
   "This story should remind all Americans how lucky we are to live in a nation (America) where we have a constitutional right to keep and bear swords to protect ourselves from those who would repair our sewage pipes."
- Dave Barry: Catching Up On The News -

"You may have heard that I have been diagnosed with breast cancer. Your strength is carrying my family through too in this latest struggle, and this is a fight we will win."
- Elizabeth Edwards -

"Thanks a lot. So if you lose, it's MY fault?"
- Xarvon, alien investigator -

"To see what is in front of one's nose needs a constant struggle."
- George Orwell -

"You can only write, 'Somebody wants something, something else is in their way of getting it.'"
- Aaron Sorkin -

"One of the easiest things in the world is not to write. If it were easy, everyone would do it."
- William Goldman -

    "In 2004, 41 out of 51 Republican senators were given 100 percent ratings by the Christian Coalition for their votes on behalf of fundamentalist issues. Meanwhile, 31 out of 48 Democrats scored zero. Similar splits can be found in the House, where Minority Leader Tom DeLay expressly uses dominionist language.
   "During a 'Worldview Weekend' conference in 2002, he said: '(God) is using me, all the time, everywhere, to stand up for a biblical worldview in everything that I do.'"
- Robyn E. Blumner: Backward, Christian soldiers -

"The men American people admire most extravagantly are the most daring liars; the men they detest most violently are those who try to tell them the truth." 
- H. L. Mencken -

"The man who removes a mountain begins by carrying away small stones."
- William Faulkner -

"Opportunity is missed by most people because it is dressed in overalls and looks like work."
- Thomas A. Edison -

"The wishbone will never replace the backbone."
- Will Henry -

"If you want others to be happy, practice compassion. If you want to be happy, practice compassion."
- His Holiness the Dalai Lama -

Everything Else

Mandatory Reading: Who'da thunk that the 1st Earth Battalion Manual, the brilliant tactical battle manual for the army of the future, and the most popular download at my site this month, could have filtered its way to Abu Ghraib. Read the fascinating story of The Road to Abu Ghraib and check out what Jim Channon is doing now.

Go here if you think Howard Dean should be the new Chairman of the Democratic Party.

The Palestinian election for a new leader will be more legitimate than ours. (No electoral college. No electronic voting machines.)

Pissed Off Voters is an excellent clearinghouse for U.S. voting irregularities.

Wanna get back at someone who has pissed you off? Right up there with the Anarchist Cookbook is the CIA Book of Dirty Tricks.

Mark Fiore has blessed us with The Depressed Democrats' Guide to Recovery.

Go ahead. Complain to Congress. See if anyone cares.