An Experiment in Scotch

Imag­ine if you will a soci­ety where the fol­low­ing is pos­si­ble. You take your hard earned dol­lars to a bank. You deposit your checks, write checks to your cred­i­tors, pay your elec­tric bill, maybe even have a sav­ings account or two. Hun­dreds of other peo­ple in your com­mu­nity do the same. The bank is prof­itable …

Keith Olber­mann is a prick, that’s really all you can say. But Jon Stew­art says it far bet­ter than I ever could. The Daily Show With Jon Stew­art Mon — Thurs 11p / 10c

Hitler par­o­dies never ever ever get old. Change we can believe in and all.

Big Media is falling over itself try­ing to can­on­ize the Lion of the Sen­ate, Ted Kennedy, who died this week. But let’s not for­get the man let a woman die that could have been saved while he tried to save his polit­i­cal career from the fall­out. Appar­ently, he liked to joke about it. If that’s …

After solv­ing all the nation’s really hard prob­lems this morn­ing, Demo­c­ra­tic Sen­a­tors lead by Chuck Schumer had plenty of time on their hands and decided to save the world from peo­ple who text while they drive. Thank God the econ­omy, health care and world peace all got knocked out in that work ses­sion this morning.

Back in May, Con­gress passed a bill that pre­vented credit card com­pa­nies from rais­ing inter­est rates for card­hold­ers unless the cardholder’s pay­ments were 60 days over­due. They did this under the guise of pro­tect­ing the con­sumer against the capri­cious and evil credit card com­pa­nies, appar­ently for­get­ting in the process that credit card com­pa­nies and con­sumers …