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.