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A friend of mine has a great online comic strip that is not only well-drawn and witty, but it's also free. (Unless you work for a syndicate, then you should pay him for it.) His strips remind me of Bloom County with more a pop-culture tilt. Check it out here. Tell him I sent you.

Senility check: I hope that when I begin to suffer from Alzheimer's disease (preferably at a very advanced age) that whatever newspaper I am writing for has the good sense to put me out to pasture. In today's Washington Post, columnist Mary McGrory reveals that her time is has come. McGrory tries her hand at […]

The skeletal remains of former intern Chandra Levy were found in a park in Washington, D.C. today. This is the second tragedy in this case. The first tragedy occurred earlier this year when adulterous congressman Gary Condit lost the Democratic primary -- meaning that he will no longer be able to use his position as […]

The story so far: If you haven't seen it yet, The Weekly Standard's Bill Kristol has the text of his prepared remarks for a House subcommittee on the Middle East and South Asia posted. Kristol gives a good, concise summary of the duplicity practices by the Saudi regime -- and why we need to stop […]

Why editors aren't always bad things: I've apparently raised a ruckus by suggesting that syndicated columnist Kathleen Parker took the idea from her latest column from a comment made at littlegreenfootballs.com. (For links see the item below.) The original poster of the idea, in their response to the item stated that what Parker did "was […]

Thieving from the blogs Inspired by the blogs: Syndicated columnist Kathleen Parker's latest piece is appears to be based on comments made by one of the readers at littlegreenfootballs.com. Let's go even further: assume that the FBI had information on the exact date, time, flight number, and descriptions of suspects. So they raid all the […]

Accounting firms in trouble: The Big Five accounting firms will have trouble winning lawmakers to their side in the current battle over accounting reform in the wake of the Enron debacle. The SEC is now looking into Ernst & Young.

I'm definitely not getting on The American Prospect's list of best liberal bloggers by attacking them, but, you want to talk about stupid: HOW IS STAR WARS RACIST? LET US COUNT THE WAYS. Tapped finds it disturbing that Star Wars creator and philosopher king George Lucas still can't understand why anyone got p.o.-ed about Jar […]

Sony spends millions of dollars to create a anti-copying system for its CDs and it's foiled -- by a magic marker. Is the fact that Sony is blowing money like this supposed to somehow encourage us to buy their overpriced CDs?

If you're interested in a quick rundown of what Congress is doing with regard to the Enron/Arthur Andersen debacle, check this out.