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 [...]

You think you’ve got housing troubles with your leaky skylight and that letter from Countrywide telling you no more money?
Well, consider doctor brothers Jonathan and Andrew Bourne who, as the New York Times reports, live 36 miles from their nearest neighbor (only about 12 miles from a road, as the snowmobile flies).
Oh, but wait, that’s [...]

Nevermind that the U.S.S.R. was supposed to be a godless state–folks knew how to make some Christmas cards.
(Via BoingBoing)