Politics and other nightmares

"Things that just had to happen sooner or later" department. In Rhode island, a bill of rights for the homeless:

Holy cow, maybe this partisan divide thing has gone too far:

I didn't even know there was such a thing as nationalhogfarmer.com, but here they weigh in with what seems like a commonsense obersvation missed by everyone else about the Lugar-Mourdock race:

Do sports make people stupid? Sometimes it sure seems so:

The final numbers are in, and show that city and county agencies combined took a $1.3 million loss when Indianapolis hosted the Super Bowl.

Poor Barack Obama -- he wasn't able to be the first black president because Bill Clinton took that title. But, now, thanks to Newsweek magazine, he gets his own title: "The First Gay President":

I have always sensed that he intuitively understands gays and our predicament—because it so mirrors his own. And he knows how the love and sacrifice of marriage can heal, integrate, and rebuild a soul.

I have been getting my vicarious thrills lately from following the John Edwards trial. Edwards is the scumbag of all scumbags, and the unfolding creepiness of his sordid behavior is glorious to behold in a can't-take-your-eyes-off-the-car-wreck kind of way. But there's a real issue here, and it hinges on the definition of the word "the" in much the same way Bill Clinton tried to redefine "is":

If you've been bothered by Barack Obama's presidency, but just couldn't put your finger on what was wrong, it can now be revealed: He's just too good for us and too darn smart to be president:

President Obama says he got a little help from his family as he "evolved" on the question of gay marriage:

Socialism got a "dead cat bounce" with the recent elections in Europe:

The Social Welfare State is dying. Like the Berlin Wall and the Iron Curtain, the cradle-to-grave social welfare experiment must eventually collapse. A system of taxing work and profits, while subsidizing leisure, sloth, and retirement, must eventually fail.

It may be true, as many conservatives like to point out, that government can't really create jobs. But it sure can kill them, in more ways than one. There is death by regulations, for example:

Since the 1950s, the number of U.S. workers needing an occupational license—effectively a government permission slip to work—has grown from one in 20 to nearly one in three, according to a 2010 study. . .