Maggie's Farm

Good Yankee humor via AVI:

The Tourist, looking up at the sign, asked: Old-timer, both forks say "St. Johnsbury." Does it matter which of these roads I take?

Eben Jenkins shook his head. "Not to me it don't."

British ban L’Oreal ad campaign because images were ‘overly airbrushed’

Envy of beauty makes people ugly

Drinking six to eight cups of water called 'nonsense' in editorial

Obama-loving GE moving X-ray business to China

There's a reason why the president can't unveil a budget plan: the minute he does so, the 80-year shell game of the New Deal is up.

Demagoguery is not leadership, Mr. President

Dunn: Obama Seems To Be Taking His Defeat In The 2012 Election Rather Well

Is The One a lame duck?

Dear Yankee: Remember that Rick Perry is an Aggie

Not a metrosexual, it would appear

A Case For Government

Flying in to Los Angeles, bringing in lots of stuff.

We design it, and they make it.

If Health Spending Controls Fail, What Are the Options?

Obama’s Battleground-State Blues - The president’s national poll numbers aren’t good, but they’re worse in battleground states.

White privilege is a myth.

I'm mostly white (if you ignore a little American Injun blood), and yet cops keep pulling me over because they are profiling me and my red Lamborghini. Is it my ride, or are they detecting my inner Injun?

Cairo's garbage, and Christians. That is some serious recycling by the Cairo garbagemen.

Polar Bears:

A federal wildlife biologist whose observation in 2004 of presumably drowned polar bears in the Arctic helped to galvanize the global warming movement has been placed on administrative leave and is being investigated for scientific misconduct, possibly over the veracity of that article.

Potemra:

So I understand that my country is about to become an insolvent failed state, plunging over the cliff into abject bankruptcy. On the other hand, I just discovered a great video of the Josie and the Pussycats theme song rendered in a mash-up of different musical styles. Fellow Americans, we face great challenges; but we must never lose sight of what made us a great nation.