The Information Super-Frog

Here's a little cartoon by Clifford Berryman from 90 years ago. You no doubt recognize the personifications of the USA's pair of ruling parties. "Borah" refers to William Borah of Idaho. It seems he was an intelligent fellow of honest principles who somehow wound up in the U.S. Senate -- sounds implausible, but statistical anomalies do happen once in a while. Well, Borah did a study of how elections were bought and sold and the attendant corruption. As the cartoon shows, those two animal headed deities that run this country weren't able to get their minds around the notion there was anything wrong in that.

We're winding down a 6 Billion Dollar political campaign here in the USA - I hope we all got our money's worth.

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A Russo-Japanese War joke??

Today's "Get Fuzzy" cartoon

Thanks for throwing a bone to the history buffs in the audience.

Why the White House won't release its Katrina papers

Mayor Nagin seeks foreign aid

Gov. Blanco threatens to with hold approval of new offshore petrolem leases I hate to think how badly Americans would fare if disaster hit some part of the country with even less clout/resources/etc than here.

And remember, in Greater New Orleans, the big disaster wasn't Katrina, it was the Levee failure.

Overtopping claim won't hold water, experts say "So, yeah, this was a human failure, not a natural disaster." More evidence giving additional confirmation to what's already known.

More US Army Corps of Engineers levee screwups

See Louisiana's bayous, picturesque home of drowned SUVs

And in other news:
Much Muslim outrage not actually about the Danish cartoons, but rather over a different set of cartoons an extremist group forged to deliborately stir up trouble. and More commentary