Common Sense

By “Doc” Gary Johnson
(Ed. note: This column was submitted by my friend Doc Johnson and I decided to run it. Trying to fix the coding that comes from copying and pasting was quite a bother, so you’ll see changes throughout. It’s not my fault, blame WordPress. If you wish to contact him for comment or […]

Yesterday, Congressman Chet Edwards called on Van Taylor to release how much stock he owns in ExxonMobil. His official financial disclosure to the House of Representatives shows he has between $5 and $25 million in holdings and ExxonMobil stock.
ExxonMobil released its first-quarter earnings report yesterday, showing $8.4 billion in profit.
“Americans understand that it is unfair […]

Today’s apparently the deadline the UN has given Iran to stop producing uranium (which happens to be my fave show on FUSE) which could be used in nuclear weapons. Iran’s president say “Unh uh, silly bastards.”
President Ahmadinejad (seen here wearing that same khaki jacket. He wears that thing like George W. Bush wears American flag […]

Five Congresspersons were arrested outside the Sudanese embassy after protesting and calling on the Sudanese government to allow UN peacekeepers access to the victims of the genocide in Darfur.
It wasn’t entirely unexpected, the arrests, but it still shows some guts if you’re willing to be led away in handcuffs. If someone is just watching that […]

I hope you’ve been reading the Agonist since I haven’t been on Net Neutrality at all. It’s not that I don’t think it is important, it’s that I have no time to cover it. But Sean-Paul, bless him, has been all over it, including all the Democrats on the Commerce Committee who voted against the […]

I managed to take a long, relaxing nap this afternoon. Hey, I went to bed at 6:30 this morning and woke up at 10, you do the math.
More importantly, I’m now on my way to Space Monkey’s (he’s got a big plasma screen TV) to watch and review the DVD for Hostel. This is going […]

That we are all doomed?
You may have missed the recent story — these days the mainstream media seems more arbitrary than ever about what news it deems important — but it seems that the CIA has begun data mining the blogosphere in search of new trends, intelligence and early indicators of emerging international problems.
The story, […]

Super reader DH sent this in last night about Rep. John Carter:
When Special (Photo) Ops Turn Oops

By Al Kamen
Wednesday, April 26, 2006; A23

Vast numbers of lawmakers have signed on to the congressional delegation shuttle to Baghdad. And nary a one has failed to ensure that troops from the home district — who, of course, have […]

How is it I keep missing all the cool political stuff happening in Waco? I blame the Little League page!
Kinky Friedman’s campaign stop at Baylor University on Wednesday afternoon was interrupted by a surprise visit from the NoZe Brothers, an underground group of student pranksters.
Though the independent gubernatorial candidate addressed serious issues like immigration, education […]

From the AVN Blog via Luke:
SACRAMENTO, Calif. - She started out the day planning to run for governor of the state, but by the time her flight was about to leave at the end […]