My brother now has a blog. Sound the trumpets!

What's up with that picture, you ask?

HalliBush Wars, Inc.

I don't get it. Why would the families of victims and firefighters from 9/11 object to Bush's latest use of the corpses to win votes? What, do they hate America or something?

Today Assistant Secretary of State Roger Noriega (no relation) was grilled by members of Congress over former Haitian President Jean-Bertrand Aristide's claim that he was kidnapped and forced out of office by the United States. Democracy Now has footage of the hearing. US officials, of course, continue to insist that Aristide's claim is "wrong, and absurd."

Speaking of absurdities -- lots of those Europeans seem to think that our invasion of Iraq has increased the threat of terrorist attacks.

While a majority in each of the countries polled except the United States said the terrorism threat was greater now, fewer than one in 10 in any of the European countries said the terror threat had been decreased by the war.

Kinda like throwing crack rocks at dealers to win the War on Drugs.

Crooks at the Top

Former WorldCom CEO Bernard Ebbers has been indicted for fraud in that corporation's $11,000,000,000.00 embezzlement fiasco. I need to start a collection of mug shots from corporate criminals. They make my heart smile. Throw the book at him! Send him to Oz! Make him Schillinger's cellmate!

Random

Spiders are cool. That site has over 700 pictures of 220 spiders. Not a place for arachnophobes. Man, that was a cool movie. John Goodman rocks!

Thanks to Jim Moore for linking us to Curler's Corner, your one-stop curling shop, and home of the "Curling Is Good Fun" song. You must hear it right now. ("The hero who can curl / Always gets the girl.")

TimeWaster™

What, you have more time to waste? Very well -- why not Launch a Warthog? Nice game design, very addictive.

Today I'm listening to: Mad Professor!