Happy New Year…?

Sunday Matinee: Baghdad’s First Christmas

I found this CNN report through Gateway Pundit via Wheat and Weeds.

Merry Christmas!

Sunday Matinee: Inauguration Poem Preview. Spoiler alert: It won’t rhyme

I don’t know what sort of quality control they had in Horace’s day, but I’m  pretty sure the Ars Poetica took more skill than simply writing a bad essay and calling it a poem.  Which happens to be  the standard of modern poetry and Elizabeth Alexander (Obama’s Inaugural Poet featured above).  Anyway, as even I am getting swept up in inauguration fever, I’d thought I’d attempt to honor Obama with a poetical form  almost as passé as straight marriage.

Democracy Now

Global Coldening is the New Global Warming

Snow Flakes

AP’s SETH BORENSTEIN, writes:

…Ironically, 2008 will be a 10th of a degree cooler than it was last year…  While skeptics are already using it as evidence of some kind of cooling trend, it actually illustrates how fast the world is warming.

Those crazy skeptics.  Imagine, in this day and age, trying to pass off cooler temperatures as cooling. Pshaw!

Colin Powell Almost Makes Sense If you Imagine He Is Employing Reverse Psychology

Sunday Matinee: Rod Blagojevich Pleads Guilty to Naiveté…Really

Democratic Governor Blagojevich Does It On Ebay–Gets Arrested For Free Market Sympathies

Reserve Auction

In this climate of anti-free markets, it was clearly a mistake for Blagojevich to attempt to sell a Senate seat.  Had he attempted to confiscate a Senate seat from the voters, he’d be a Democrat in good standing–like  Al Franken.

Sketchbook Wins A Coveted Pookie!