Overdrawn and Overplayed, For Starters

I like this:

There's just one lil problem with the image: MY bank won't give me any more money if I'm overdrawn.  The gub'mint doesn't have that lil problem, tho... they can always raise the debt ceiling and print more money.  Which they're doing, to our everlasting detriment.  This is NOT a good thing.  Some pundit uttered a sentiment about our Congress recently, to the effect of "Just STOP, already.  Don't do anything else.  Just Go Home!"  I couldn't agree more.

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It's the time of year when the retrospective lists start coming at us from every direction... except it's worse this year, seeing as how popular misconception has it we're closing out the first decade of the 21st century (we're not; that's next year).  Yahoo! has an interesting list... if'n you're into that sorta thing... of the most popular Yahoo! search terms of the Oughties.  It's chock full of links to interesting things, as well.  Like this:

The terrorist attacks on Sept 11, 2001, left a nation stunned, mourning and looking for answers. No one will ever forget the horrific images of airplanes crashing into the World Trade Center's North and South towers, the Pentagon and a Pennsylvania field. In the days and weeks that followed, people turned to the Web to find timelines of what happened, photos and videos of the attacks and information about who was responsible. Osama bin Laden and al-Qaida became household names.

Eventually, people began looking for sources of inspiration and healing. Images of the twin towers falling were replaced with one of ground zero's "Tribute in Light." Online memorials and dedications to the 2,976 victims became places of remembrance while people the world over searched for ways to help victims and their families. Iconic moments from "Saturday Night Live" (Lorne Michaels: "Can we be funny?" NYC Mayor Rudy Giuliani: "Why start now?"), David Letterman and "The Daily Show with Jon Stewart" gave people a reason to smile again.

I'm not a Jon Stewart fan and I don't watch The Daily Show, preferring to get my "news" and sarcasm from other sources.  But, that said (and I had to say it, yanno?  "Never miss a chance to get a shot in at people you don't like" is my motto.) Stewart's post-9/11 soliloquy was eloquent and well-said (Dept of Redundancy Department). There's lotsa other good stuff at the article link, as well.