Odds and Ends

Yay! A short week! Presents! Yay! But first, here's a few odds and ends-

This just in... Vice President Cheney is a monster. That is all.

Free-market capitalism at work: "[A]fter receiving billions in aid from U.S. taxpayers, the nation's largest banks say they can't track exactly how they're spending the money or they simply refuse to discuss it... The Associated Press contacted 21 banks that received at least $1 billion in government money and asked four questions: How much has been spent? What was it spent on? How much is being held in savings, and what's the plan for the rest? None of the banks provided specific answers."

Here's where some of it went, though... executive bonuses! This is all the union's fault!!

CA's Attorney General urges the repeal of Proposition 8. Meanwhile, its supporters ask the state Supreme Court "to nullify the marriages of the estimated 18,000 same-sex couples who exchanged vows before voters approved the ballot initiative." Christ would approve!

President Bush's new presidential portrait is disturbing.

Finally, in true political form, Howard Dean is proven right by history, but shafted anyway.