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Rest in peace, Molly.

So I’m listening to the BBC World Service on the way into work this morning and apparently there’s a prison scandal in Great Britain right now. They talked to the former Chief Inspector of Prisons. His name? Well, he was introduced by the news reader as “Lord Ramsbotham.”
That’s pronounced “Ramsbottom.”
My day got off [...]

America’s men and women in uniform took away al Qaeda’s safe haven in Afghanistan - and we will not allow them to re-establish it in Iraq.
–George Bush, January 10, 2007

The problem is, of course, that they’re re-establishing it in frickin’ Afghanistan.

I drive this stretch of road every day I go to work. Here’s what I’ve observed:

People panic when they notice they’re going down a hill.
Any moisture falling from the sky causes panic.
People are astonished when they see the sun and can’t remember how to use sunglasses or sun visors.
People are astonished when it gets dark [...]

Go there.  Go there now.

The socialist candidate for the French presidency is named ‘Royal’?

If this weren’t so awful, there would be a joke in there about zombie armies. But it is awful, and I feel so bad for the families.

This sucks
Of course, Walt was no liberal…
I wonder if they’d let me in the parks in Orlando if I wore a T-Shirt with direct quotes from the hosts on it?