Last week's news

Yeah, I've been busy. So I'm just going to toss up links and limit myself to 2cents on each. Credit links are long since forgotten, but are probably the blogs on the sidebar anyway.

Energy news: Gas is fucking expensive. Glad I ride a bike. There's 2 possibilities: 1 Bush is an oil man and it's oil companies day in the sun... or 2 We're rapidly consuming a non-renewable resource and it's only going to get worse. (Of course those aren't mutually exclusive.) I like to pick on Bush, but I lean towards #2. Do we have a way out? Here's a good article comparing automotive energy sources. The option that's not listed is electric cars from non-coal fired electric plants (ie nuclear). The engineer in me suspects that's our best option, but I'm going to have to put more thought into it...someday. Anyway, our Republican Congress was considering moving a tax cut off of the oil companies and giving $100 dollars to each taxpayer instead. While I appreciate that a lot of people vote with their wallet, and thus votes are for sale, I just question whether $100 is enough. Lest it be perceived that I supported this idea, I remind you that we're still borrowing money like crazy. Putting (another) $100 cash advance for every taxpayer on our Chinese Credit Card so we can afford to drive bigger cars and postpone resolving our energy crisis is....pick your own derogatory adjective...and add a profane gerundive in front of it. Our kids will be happy to pay for our gas, right? At least when they have none left, they'll still have the bills.

Big week for hookers. Of course there's the ones bought for Congressman Cunningham (and possibly others). Billmon describes this as "Whores buying whores for whores" (I think Lobbyists buying hookers for Congressmen...though it also works as hookers buying congressmen for lobbyists.) Less in the news was another Euorpean Muslim SNAFU. Seems those sorry repressed bastards got all up in arms (litterally) because Muslim country flags were shown on a 50 foot prostitution ad. Conservative blogger Tigerhawk defends freedom of speech from the rabid islamofascists. Isn't it great that Islam unifies the West? Under any other circumstances we'd have to listen to folks like Dobson explode over the offense of putting the American flag on a 50-foot hooker, but due to the presence of even more crazy bastards, the convervative wing is arguing that this is an issue of freedom. Long may the flag be pasted on a topless 50-foot hooker to support freedom! (In this case the freedom of German prostitution corporations to market to horny men with national symbols. Sorry for the marginally unsafe-for-work photo, but photos without the Stars and Stripes just don't cut it.)

Speaking of whores, there was a White House Correspondent's Dinner (I don't really think the White House Press are whores, but they are awful chummy with elected officials and social events like this just make them closer). If you live under a rock and don't know that Stephen Colbert did his "Bush-supporting" gag as the dinner's keynote speaker, then Google "Colbert Bush Dinner" and watch it. Funny in text, painful in video, and painfully funny in retrospect. Ok fine, here's a link. I almost imagine Colbert dropping Jon Steward an e-mail. "Say Jon, remember how you went on Crossfire and forced them to take a deep look in the mirror in front of their own fawning audience? Well, I wanted to tell you: Crossfire's for chumps."

Since I'm out of prostitution-reference stories I'll call it a day. Check your moral compass...it's going to be a rough summer.