Oh, so true and something for most everyone in the resolution category …

Happy New Year to All : )
Any other resolutions in the comical, but often true, category?

News of the Justice Department’s announcement of an investigation into the leaking of classified information by the New York Times will no doubt bring claims of the administration trying to deflect attention away from the legalities of actions associated with their post 9/11 surveillance activities.
The Justice Department said on Friday that it had opened a [...]

A mini-blogburst sparked by Dr. Demarche illuminates the term “world community.” He asks whether the term has any real meaning and what is the role of the United Nations and the United States in such a place. I’m afraid my modest contribution doesn’t reveal much except the disordered condition of my own thoughts about it. [...]

Wow…
Just watched a clip from John Gibson’s “The BIG Show” on Fox and they’re certainly having a “spirited” debate. No doubt you can already assume that the word “liar” was bandied about quite a bit.
And I will say it again, because it bears repeating…I can not believe that these guys are actually calling this a [...]

Listen, I agree that we should erect some sort of barrier to provide deterrence against people crossing the border. However, I disagree with the other measures he proposes because they are WAY too strict. We should be thinking about earned amensty for illegals who’ve joined our society, instead of prosecuting them, their families and anybody [...]

Saturday Night Live (SNL) has been in a slump for a while now. Sure, they’ve had some funny moments here and there, but nothing that’s made me truly laugh out loud. But, thankfully, all that has changed recently…
If you want to watch something ridiculously funny this Friday…do see this digital short by SNL by Andy [...]

A real tale of friendship…and touching story…
Bereaved by the forces of nature and discovered by wildlife rangers near certain death in the Indian Ocean off Malindi, the one-year-old male hippo calf dubbed Owen was on 27 December 2004 placed in Haller Park, a wildlife sanctuary in the coastal city of Mombassa, Kenya.
As soon as [...]

No, he’s not a terrorist.
He’s all alone and the AP reports…
As a junior this year at a Pine Crest School, a prep academy of about 700 students in Fort Lauderdale, Hassan studied writers like John McPhee in the book “The New Journalism,” an introduction to immersion journalism â€â€? a writer who lives the life of [...]

They have this strange story out tonight that talks about the Joe Wilson’s and Valerie Plame’s son “outing” him. When I read it, well, it seemed like more of a paprazzi piece than a news story.
Here, just check out this part…
HOUSTON (Reuters) - The Washington couple at the heart of the CIA leak investigation had [...]

Oh my…
And so on Wednesday afternoon, the thrilled bride, wearing a white dress, walked down the dock before hundreds of astounded visitors and kneeled down before her groom, who was waiting in the water.
Cindy, escorted by his fellow best-men dolphins, swam over to Tendler and she hugged him, whispered sweet nothings in his ear, and [...]

Looks like Jacques is trying to garner some personal favors from Hollywood…
More from Cinematical…
According to The Da Vinci Code’s Brian Grazer and Ron Howard, a meet and greet with French president Jacques Chirac last year turned into something quite different. About a year ago, the pair was in Paris trying to get permits to film [...]

From what I can tell, former UK ambassador to Uzbekistan, Craig Murray, published some documents on his website about the UK’s torture policies. Not sure what this all means quite yet, but it doesn’t look good.
From Blair Watch:
The UK government has been quick to deny that we practice, or tolerate the practice of Torture. So [...]

The hidden danger of cookies.
Ok, in addition to your waistline, computer style cookies are ready to invade your personal space.
Case in point …
The National Security Agency’s Internet site has been placing files on visitors’ computers that can track their Web surfing activity despite strict federal rules banning most files of that type.
The files, known as [...]

Apart from the inevitable poor taste jokes about the South Korean cloned dog claim, e.g. South Korea has apparently found a way to insure replicating a good meal (I know, very bad), the prospect of such a possibility does lead to some interesting questions.
A South Korean investigation panel looking into the works of a disgraced [...]

There’s a little challenge going around some parts of the blogosphere to nominate your candidates for “Ten Worst Americans of All Time.” It’s based on a British survey.
Now, in our splendid partisan blog-topia, you probably imagine that, if you know the blue-or-red affiliation of each blog, you can pretty much nail 8 or more of [...]

The Chicago Tribune fearlessly investigates Shrubbie McHitlerburton the Impeachment Chimp, holds his feet to the fire, speaks truth to power, despite the certainty of being “rendered” to an “American gulag”:

On Nov. 20, the Tribune began an inquest: We set out to assess the Bush administration’s arguments for war in Iraq. We have weighed each of [...]

I live not far from Dover, the little bedroom borough in York County, Pennsylvania, where the “intelligent design” controversy played out. When the ruling came down against the school district, one of the local newspapers sub-headed its reaction story “Scientists, teachers pleased; conservatives furious.”
That’s how far “conservative” has fallen. Somehow, the name of the philosophy [...]

As we continue to discuss and evaluate the particulars unfolding with regards to “Surveillance Gate,” a look at our history and conclusions of our founding fathers would seem to be in order.
In the continuing saga of the surveillance “scandal,” with some congressional Democrats denouncing President Bush as a lawbreaker and even suggesting that impeachment hearings [...]

SCOTUSblog has the 411:
Attorneys for terrorism suspect Jose Padilla put before the Supreme Court Tuesday a full account of the shifting strategy of the Bush Administration in dealing with Padilla, seeking to persuade the Justices that the government is blatantly attempting to manipulate the courts to gain more power in the war on terrorism.
Answering the [...]

An interesting editorial in the NY Times. I don’t agree with it, but I think it’s important to consider what those who agree with the President are saying.
In an effort to control counterintelligence activities in the United States during the cold war, the surveillance act established a special court, known as the FISA court, with [...]