The Austin Chronicle is reporting that:
Saturday night, Tim Mahoney and [Speaker of the House Tom Craddick crony] Harrison Keller qualified for a runoff election in the race for Austin Community College Board of Trustees, with the former getting 48.5% of the vote and the latter taking 33%. Today, Keller decided to withdraw . . . […]

Okay, so you’ve probably heard about the “gay bomb,” which when deployed is supposed to spark homosexual lust within the enemy ranks, thus destroying unit cohesion and allowing the U.S. (or whatever force uses the weapon) to destroy said enemy.
Well, now there’s the ‘Ennui Gas,’ “a nerve agent that overwhelms its victims with sudden philosophical […]

Obama Girl Loves The Troops
[Hotel Tango: IAVA]

Dramatic Chipmunk
[Hotel Tango: My State Failure Blog]

Kanye West Video Spoof
Better than the original.
[Hotel Tango: Sarah Rigdon]

Interesting article in today’s The American Prospect online. A new study says the more secular residents there are in a neighborhood, the more conservative their religious neighbors become.
Let’s say you’re a progressive who isn’t religious, and you aren’t afraid to say so. You’ve long since cast off the beliefs your parents held, and you never […]

Yesterday, while catching up on my The Economist reading, I read Tony Blair’s recent rundown of his lessons learned while in office. It was largely the same platitudes we’ve been hearing from both London and Washington, but this out-right lie really caught my eye:
We can debate and re-debate the rights or wrongs of removing Saddam. […]

The latent causes of faction are thus sown in the nature of man; and we see them everywhere brought into different degrees of activity, according to the different circumstances of civil society. A zeal for different opinions concerning religion, concerning government, and many other points, as well of speculation as of practice; an attachment to […]

Okay, so here’s the second installment of this great little idea. Not as good as the first one, in my opinion.
Today, we salute you, Mr. calls way too many points of order
representative guy…
While other reps aim to insure needy children, protect the border and
solve pressing issues legislatively, you sir maintain the integrity of
the bill analysis, […]