This Week: A Yellow Flag
Tues | AUG 5 John McCain and wife visit the planet’s largest biker rally in Sturgis, South Dakota, as part of the candidate’s tour to drum up support for his new energy program—he wants to use it all up—and to make up for the fact that no one has written a [...]

(We’re talking about Russia and Georgia this time)
If you’ve watched the news anytime in the past few days you’ve seen alarming footage of Russian tanks crossing into Georgia, apartment buildings with whole walls sheared off and skirted with piles of broken cinderblock, and women weeping over bodies in civilian clothes.  What the hell is going [...]

Thanks, Georgia!
Mike Norman, bar owner of Marietta, Georgia, has made this contribution to our national discourse:

Norman insists that he is simply pointing out a physical likeness between Obama and Curious George–the hairline! the ears!–and that it’s mere coincidence that George is a cartoon monkey: no racism here!
The Atlanta Journal-Constitution is covering the story, [...]

Law enforcement’s newest crime-busting tool? A tattoo machine
It’s not local, but this recent piece from CNN.com still makes us shake our heads in wonder. Apparently, a county sheriff in Augusta, Georgia opened a tattoo parlor expressly to sting local oafs–and then just sat back and watched the felonies roll in.