Perhaps the single biggest part of “President Elect” Obama’s entire campaign has been his platform of change. Apparently that change is already in action before he even takes office. The first thing to change has the recently established presidential transition website at change.gov

I think that I may have come up with a great way to get “more for our money” out of politicians. The answer is to require them to drink more coffee. Specifically, they need to drink lots of very strong coffee for the entire time that Congress is in session.

Oh, you might see an occasional mention once in a while of a special case or three but for the most part this part of our society is pretty much swept under the rug until the holidays come around and then everybody does the best that they can to be seen doing somebody a favor and getting them a holiday dinner or some such.

In the still small hours of the early morning, still hours before the sunrise, a wave of relief swept across the nation. People relaxed with a positively palpable relief when they awoke in the middle of the night and staggered blurry-eyed to the bathroom for the three-something-in-the-flipping-morning-tired-walking-zombie-but-gotta-go-anyway routine and remembered what day it was. [...]

Anyone out there as tired of political this and that as I am? I mean, the various campaigns for the 2008 election have been going on for over 21 months! I heard that mentioned on the news the other day and it just kinda struck me. I knew it had been a long time, over a year in fact, and the whole thing has long since gotten to the point of seeming interminable.

The big news is still the economy and the big financial crisis. You know, that mess gifted upon us by all the greedy so-and-so’s on Wall St? The one that we can probably thank most of our politicians for because they bowed to various special interests and didn’t require thorough enough financial reporting?
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There seems to be a wave of things being broken online these days. Recently Microsoft’s revised CAPTCHA system was broken and now slashdot is reporting that Google’s CAPTCHA has been broken.

I just saw this on Boing Boing and had to comment about the unmitigated gall displayed by the International Olympic Committee’s latest example of what surely has to be severe brain damage.

The problem however is that along the way some really stupid laws get enacted and you have to ask yourself, just HOW did this asininity get signed into law?

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