May 2008

My third change of address in three years out of the way, it seems to becoming a seasonal thing. Ah well, back in business, and wireless broadband to boot.

From the land that gave you the Second Amendment, comes this special offer from a car dealership in Butler, Missouri. Buy a new car from Max Motors and get a free handgun.

"I’m telling them to get the semiautomatic because it holds more rounds," the dealership's general manager, Walter Moore, told the Kansas City Star. He's not talking about the car.

Video from MSNBC.

I make no comment, I give no endorsement, I just link to Russia Today's report.

Working families binge drinking their baby bonus away for lack of affordable housing? Not in Schwarzenegger's California, where they have another solution for mortgage stress. CNBC takes up the story.

Counting down the three outstanding political quotes of the past week:

Number Three:

"...there are 350 million people in India who are classified as middle class. That's bigger than America. Their middle class is larger than our entire population."

- George Walker Bush, assigning blame for the global food shortage, 1.5.08

Number Two: