The Exquisite Contrarian

Here’s a great article to read if you want to hear about the latest loan modification your mortgage company will pretend doesn’t exist. Seriously, these guys will do everything they can to avoid the Making Home Affordable Program.  I’m not sure why the government wastes its time trying.

Sometimes it seems like you couldn’t write a better script if you tried, doesn’t it? And here they are, presumably making beautiful music together.

I’m not sure where Ollie gets his own personal intelligence, but he’s been spreading the word that Taliban leader Mullah Muhammad Omar has been captured lately.  In case you don’t remember, he’s the dude that told the United States Osama Bin Laden was a guest of Afghanistan back before Omar was blown off his perch leading [...]

Another ‘birther’ appears, in an interesting place and with impressive decoration.

Drones are effective. Should we be centering our strategy around them?  Are we already?

We’re wondering if this assessment by commanding General McChrystal will result in backlash at home or abroad. “Amazing” is to us an amazing choice of adjectives when referring to civilian casualties.

The President marked his Census form.

Unsurprisingly, Christopher Hitchens is among those who see the current evidence against the pope as incontrovertible.  Here’s the evidence Hitchens points to in his assessment that the pope is not above the law, and was in fact involved in the cover up.

How the Health Care Overhaul Could Affect You.