As heartwarming as it might be that CNN has helped reunite a few families, I find the missing children scroll to be awfully annoying. The normal scroll at the bottom of the screen is bad enough, and that doesn’t take up over 1/3 of the screen.
I recall the good old days when news channels were theoretically about reporting news.
How Sad It Is To Be Out Of Power
On C-SPAN, the Senate Democratic Policy Committee is holding “hearings” on gasoline prices. The committee asked the CEOs of several large oil companies to come testify. Unfortunately, the committee can’t require anyone to appear, and–surprise–none of the oil executives showed up. So the first witness to testify at the session was some cranberry farmer from Massachusetts.
That ought to help them get to the bottom of things.
Of course, thanks to the recently-enacted Energy Bill, we no longer have a gasoline problem, anyway. So I don’t know why these people are wasting their time on this.
Sticking With The Story
50 Reasons Why Cars Suck
Heh.
Back Blogging
Well, just goes to show how much I’ve been out of the loop the past few weeks. I just today learned that the blogger formerly known as South Knox Bubba has been popping up at Facing South.
Good to see.
Lean Mean Machine
This one was too good to pass up:
House Majority Leader Tom DeLay said yesterday that Republicans have done so well in cutting spending that he declared an “ongoing victory,” and said there is simply no fat left to cut in the federal budget.
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Asked if that meant the government was running at peak efficiency, Mr. DeLay said, “Yes, after 11 years of Republican majority we’ve pared it down pretty good.”
As Billmon notes, federal non-defense discretionary spending as a percentage of GDP has been higher since 2001 than it was during any year between 1997-2000.