On Empathy

"If we could read the secret history of our enemies, we should find in each man's life sorrow and suffering enough to disarm all hostility."
-- Henry Wadsworth Longfellow

Todd Palin Says America's Core Values Are Hunting and Fishing

I found this article via the Huffington Post, which found it via this blog. Word gets around, I guess.

Todd Palin spoke at a gun club in Pennsylvania on Saturday and proclaimed to the 75 or so people present that "it is important to have a ticket that 'supports our core values -- hunting and fishing'".

How can fishing be a 'value'?

Dan Quayle Gives Palin Advice: "Just be yourself!"

Giggle-snort!

Richard Heinberg's take on the $700 billion bailout

So is the sky falling yet? The House rejected the bailout package and the whole process starts over again in a few days.

Me? All I can think of is how I should get my hands on some home heating oil pronto now that oil's dipped down below $100 US a barrel today.

Incidentally, here's what Richard Heinberg had to say about it this whole $700 billion bailout scenario a few days ago.