Are you fed up with life’s rich pageant of people, events and trends completely lacking in value or values? Well, we here at Pensito Review are too, which is why we created the Penny Awards, taking the “pen” from “Pensito” and the theme from the lowest valued coin of the realm, the one-cent piece, which [...]

Like all good fascist states, Saddam’s regime had its paperwork. The most dreaded document produced by Ba’athist bureaucracy was the “red card” — a death decree signed by a judge and printed on red paper. Guess what Saddam got a few hours before he was hanged yesterday:
Iraqi officials say as Hussein stood on the gallows [...]

This is really bad:
A new poll from The Associated Press and AOL News has discovered that Americans are torn in terms of their perception of President George W. Bush and his performance in 2006. When asked to name the past year’s biggest villain, Bush was far and away the #1 choice, commanding 25 percent of [...]

What were you doing on Aug. 13, 2005? If you were a Canadian ice shelf, you were melting and breaking free. Yikes.
“What surprised us was how quickly it happened,” Copland said. “It’s pretty alarming.”
A giant ice shelf the size of 11,000 football fields has snapped free from Canada’s Arctic, scientists said. The mass of ice [...]

Bah, hoohah: The nation’s governors seem to use the Christmas season — and their Christmas cards — as a means of expressing their inner muse as well as their political agendas. Stateline.org has collected a bunch of them here for our edification and delight.

Seeking relief: Medical experts in Iraq have noted a sharp rise in suicides in Iraq — most blamed on the psychological stress caused by unrelenting violence. The report was released today by IRIN, a UN humanitarian news and information service.
“We see more cases of suicide each month and all evidence shows that the main reason [...]

Al Kamen, in his “In the Loop” Washington Post blog, shares an announcement that could have been written by the president himself.
President Bush’s pre-Christmas visit to Walter Reed Army Medical Center caused some unexpected problems, judging from an e-mail alert we received. There were the usual traffic rerouting and parking restrictions, from 8 p.m. on [...]

Pres. Gerald Ford died yesterday in the Rancho Mirage section of Palm Springs, California. Ford will be remembered as a caretaker president who quickly ushered the country away from its focus on Republican malfeasance under the leadership of Pres. Richard Nixon during the Watergate scandals.
Ford was the first of only two presidents who came [...]

Two things to take from this post: 1) Bush, et al campaigned way too hard for this loser to lose, and 2) Oh no, you did-int say the voters can’t see how the votes are recorded!
I didn’t think I would still be this appalled, all these weeks later, about the race in which Republican multimillionaire [...]

“For the fate of the sons of men and the fate of the beasts is the same; as one dies so dies the other. They all have the same breath, and man has no advantage over the beasts; for all is vanity.”
— Ecclesiastes, 3:19-20