Sullivan has a marvelous chart of the percentage of the Federal budget that goes to earmark spending. Cutting back on earmarks is McCain’s proposal for rescuing us from our fiscal spiral. Not so much.

Michael Bérubé announces his return to the blogosphere here, here, and here. Heh. Nothing like a grand entrance.

Somali pirates have  hijacked a Ukrainian freighter loaded with tanks, artillery, grenade launchers and ammunition.

The failure to act yesterday was so monumental stupid that I’m not quite sure what else to say. Want more synonyms for stupidity? You can read Brooks, Herbert, Cowen, …

Sharon Stone wanted to botox her kid’s feet.

And here’s John McCain’s old house. As if you needed another reason to not vote for him…

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