The GOP’s debt clock would be more honest if it were captioned by the #RNC2012’s slogan “We Built It!” (via @LOLGOP)

I’ve wanted to rant about this for a long time, but didn’t have the energy to do it — until a very short, very interesting article appeared in today’s paper which illustrated my point perfectly.

I know that the Washington Post columnist’s story about Bill Frist performing heart surgery on gorillas at the National Zoo was supposed to be a feel-good story — at least, I think it was — but I was  [more...]

Underreported.com poses an important question: did the founders mean for the executive branch to wield so much power? The “organization chart” of the U.S. government below comes from page 19 of the GAO 2003  [more...]