Los Angeles Times:
The lush, meandering lower leg of the Rio Grande is one of the most biologically diverse places in North America. More than 300 varieties of butterflies and half the bird species in the United States can be spotted here. So can two endangered species of wild cats: the ocelot, which resembles a miniature […]

The biggest cause of trouble in the world today is that the stupid people are so sure about things and the intelligent people are so full of doubts.
— Bertrand Russell (1972-1970) British philosopher, historian, logician, mathematician, advocate for social reform, pacifist, prominent rationalist

Andy Borowitz needs to come to Florida. His parody column isn’t a spoof here — it’s reality.
Like manna from heaven, the Democratic presidential candidates’ boycott of Florida’s Jan. 29 primary has state GOP leaders giddy.
Amid a growing belief that there is no way the Democrats can blow the 2008 presidential election, Democratic National Committee chief […]

Mid-2003: A reporter in Iraq stands on a pallet filled with shrink-wrapped bricks of C-Notes
“Who in their right mind would send 363 tons of cash into a war zone?” — Rep. Henry Waxman, D-Calif.
Pres. Bush said he vetoed the Democrats’ expansion of the SCHIP children’s health insurance program because it was too costly. This […]

I have found Christian dogma unintelligible. Early in life I absented myself from Christian assemblies.
— Benjamin Franklin, Founding Father

Rush Limbaugh phoned into the Oct. 18, 2007, edition of “Hannity & Colmes” on Fox News to deny charges he’d attacked 12-year-old Graeme Frost, the boy who dared to speak out against Pres. Bush’s veto of the health insurance program for children. But in denying he attacked Graeme, Limbaugh trashed him again. He imitated the […]

H/t: Perception Managers

At about the 5:15 mark, Bush starts a running joke about the search for WMD. Very funny, especially now that nearly 4,000 U.S. troops have died on his orders to find the weapons.

I am that gadfly which God has attached to the State, and all day long and in all places am always fastening upon you, arousing and persuading and reproaching you.
— Socrates (470-399 B.C.) Greek philosopher