The economy is quickly becoming one of the single most important issues for this election. There’s the recent financial nightmares involving Lehman Brothers, Freddi Mac, Fannie May and several other formerly high powered financial companies just about caved in.

Summer is beginning to fade and fall moves in slowly to take over. As the temperatures dropped out of the upper reaches a few weeks ago, we started shutting down the air conditioner and opening the windows. At first this would only last for a few hours at a time in the early morning, after which we were forced to close up and turn the air conditioner back on to keep from roasting.

Congress has FINALLY passed the bill that will permit offshore oil drilling.

I just saw something on Ars Technica that I can’t help find both funny and sad at the same time. It’s essentially proof of what I think a lot of people have known for a long time and that is that most people’s brains have apparently begun to lose weight in all the wrong ways.

Some of the things you run into while hitting that “Stumble” button can run the range from weird to cool. This particular find lands under the “cool” heading.

Treasury Secretary Henry Paulson is talking up the President’s 700 Billion dollar super bailout plan. He’s saying how it was the least costly option like he was choosing Delta faucets over solid gold bathroom fixtures.

A few minutes ago I ran across something on Slashdot that talked about “Cognitive Radios”. Now I am not a hamster, I realize that they’re not talking about Radios with a full blown AI but rather something that can intelligently adapt it’s use of radio frequencies.

If you’ve ever had any doubts that some people are not only without brains, but they’re also without any sense (you’ll note I didn’t say common sense, there ain’t no such thing anymore. sense isn’t common at all.) or compassion. The story of a woman facing federal charges over a soda that she refused to pay for and then dumped on the counter will convince you.

I see that North Korea is now making threats that it could restart it’s nuclear reactor. The mere mention of this intention is enough to set off the political equivalent of a pulse oximeter all over the place.

Several months ago we got a new pup. She was quite the energetic little bundle at what was it? six or eight weeks old? Anyway, We figured that because she was so small that our cat would be able to learn to get along with her. We also figured that as she got older some of the hyperactive thing would go away. Boy were we ever mistaken.