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Yesterday, Glenn Reynolds featured an intriguing quote from James Bennett of UPI:Now, of course, Columbus Day is under attack as a holiday in the United States by the forces of political correctness. This is primarily an effect of the Calvinist Puritan roots of American progressivism.

As some will remember, I used to have an archive of my political cartoons on Z Magazine, but for some reason Z nuked that portion of their website earlier this year. So I’ve made a new archive, which is located at leftycartoons.com. Please check it out. My newest Dollars and Sense Magazine cartoon is up at their site.

Possessing the slow internet connection is an irritation. To avoid the slow speed internet connection has become very easy today. The slow speed is due to happen by CSS format images, javascripts and some other elements. In order to use the faster internet connection you have to remove these elements.

Grrrrrrrrrr…when people borrow your ideas… Oct 13th, 2008 by jodycakes Good morning - Let me start by saying that I don’t want you to think this is a total rant ::moves soapbox over a bit, just in case needed:: but this may have happened to you as well.

The moon is over there! I see the moon! I want to fly to the moon. I want to fly Mommy! I want to fly in the sky and touch the moon! —– Last night Caius woke up crying just before midnight. Charlie and I were curled up on the couch together watching TV and we usually let him settle down and put himself back to sleep, but last night he didn’t fall back asleep after a minute or so.

The Federal Reserve led an unprecedented push by central banks to flood the financial system with as many dollars as banks want, backing up government efforts to revive confidence and helping to reduce money-market rates on Monday (10/13/08).

I admit it, I stress. Job security, health issues, raising children, you name it and I stress out over it. But something tells me I’m not that different from anybody else According to WebMD.com, stress effects our bodies in many ways… none of them good.

Ok, what the hell happened to Fergie? She looks like a bloated, grey haired version of Kirsty Alley! Oh hang on, that is Kirsty Alley. Anyway, here she is stuffing her face with a friend at lunch in Notting Hill. Kiddies, don’t do drugs, it’s obvious it ages you VERY quickly and makes you look old and crap.

Bookbedonnerd! The Richmond Literary Festival, 23 - 25 October 08 October 14th, 2008 by Ben - Editor Alert! The little town of Richmond in the Northern Cape - situated where the N1 meets the R398 (map) - is celebrating its first anniversary as a “booktown” by hosting its very own fair for the bookish - the Bookbedonnerd Karoo Literary Festival.

…it’s done. Victory: Home Secretary Jacqui Smith has told MPs that plans to extend terror detention to 42 days will be dropped from the Counter-Terrorism Bill. It follows a heavy defeat for the government in the House of Lords, which threw out the plan by 309 votes to 118.